does anyone know of a company that has a light mounting kit for sale. What I am looking for is a set of nipple runs 1\8" 1\4" and 3\8". then some hickeys and fixture bars, and bushings and maybe some deep canopies. Basically a nice set to install lights in some of these 100 plus year old homes that I am constantly in.
thanks

One of the lighting stores in my area gives out packs just like you described. They call them builder kits. They don't charge for them, they know that many fixtures will need a different bracket or might be missing parts, so they head off the problem before it happens. You might ask a lighting store in your area if they do the same.

There used to be a company called Renovator's Supply, or Renovator's Resource, something along those lines, that sold replica parts for the classic older homes, even up to the Bungalow style of the 40's. They had a fair amount of electrical parts for "luminaires" along with push button switches, ornate covers and such. I don't know if they're still around, though.

Check out www.rejuvination.com

Dave

Stay away from the "Box" stores... the one by me had a six pack of 3/8 nipples I tried to use one time. They didn't quite fit...

Then I remembered the reason I bought my Klein 6-in-1 tap tool, and looked at the back of the package.

There, in black ink: Made in China

Nothin' against 'em, but "Chinese Standard Thread" doesn't fit our version all the time.

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I was expecting something else!

Me too scott! With a title like that, I was expecting a story about changing the pink lights in one of those bars with poles on the stage.

Me three!

Flasback to my high school days

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Nov, check at a supply house that has a lighting dept. Angelo Products made a nice kit I purchased at a local supply house awhile back. It came in a case you could keep in your truck with all sorts of fixture parts. It worked well for me in old homes.

Al

Scott and Watt, you made me feel so old. Took me almost a minute to finally get the drift of your replies. Don't know if my memory is starting to fail, I've matured too much, I've given up, or what. All I know is that if the same question was brought up in apprentice class in 1969 it would have been an hour before that class got under control again.
Ron

How many forum posters does it take to post about nipples?

Ps, what's a nipple?

Angelo licensed the Westinghouse name and guess where most of their products come from: China!

Gloria,

This is a Nipple:



Bill

Oh, if I only knew how to post a picture of Janet Jackson!

Sorry, and the hickey?
(Also if you would let me out, what these are for?)

I can feel that the nipple should go into the hole on the wall, and it possibly has an inner thread too.
The other should be the plastic one that also goes in the wall to hold the screw?

Gloria,

The discussion here is about parts used in hanging light fixtures. Here is a picture of some:



Bill

The hickey is the bracket made out of a piece of flat steel.

Bent so it looks like a C. Holes at each end, threaded so it can screw over a nipple.

It's the item all the way to the right in this picture.



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If someone says hickey to me, I think of this
[img]http://198.247.193.8/wwwroot/greenlee/WallyTest/images/18103.JPG [/img]

I had no idea it was a lighting fixture part

When you said hickey, I first thought of that mark I left on my girlfriend's neck the other night. Left me wondering why in the world you'd be looking for hickeys in an electrical forum.

Then, after considerable reflection, I thought of a conduit bending hickey, and realized the fiscal absurdity of including one in a light kit. If it was me, I'd rather just get a normal 90 degree bender with my light kit.

Then I saw the pictures.

Thanks for the info! Next time a girl asks me for a hickey, I think it will be a lot cheaper to give her one from a light kit. You've saved me a FORTUNE!

<off> you surely have bad influences from women.