New flex for old metal lamp

[Matt Hill]

Hi everyone

I inherited an old WW2 angle poise metal lamp recently. It works fine, but I'm not sure it's safe... the wire looks antique and is obviously just 2 cores.

I've thought about putting a new cable in it, and I'm guessing that it needs earthing as it's a metal lamp.

Can anyone advise? Or is this something a professional should do?

 

[pirate]

Hi Matt

Probably need an earth on that, but a few pictures would help enormously

 

[Boing89]

Hi everyone

I inherited an old WW2 angle poise metal lamp recently. It works fine, but I'm not sure it's safe... the wire looks antique and is obviously just 2 cores.

I've thought about putting a new cable in it, and I'm guessing that it needs earthing as it's a metal lamp.

Can anyone advise? Or is this something a professional should do?

When you get it done you can find cables nowadays that look like the old ones. Just google retro 3 core cable and there’s loads of colours.

 

[dmxtothemax]

I'am pretty sure that any lamp with exposed metal needs either an effective earth or a double insulation rating.
If you want to keep that old look or patina then period correct cotton covered power cords are available -

cotton covered power cord - Google Search - https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&authuser=0&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1152&bih=501&ei=QTw1XPPUNIO18QW7pJXYBQ&q=cotton+covered+power+cord&oq=cotton+covered+power+cord&gs_l=img.12...3088.9453..12612...0.0..0.386.6709.2-17j8......2....1..gws-wiz-img.....0..0j35i39j0i5i30j0i8i30j0i24.hFuGgoNOWKE#imgrc=G9j4E6c-ClZPoM: