Where can I get parts to repair a customers broken lamp post? Only two of the three lamps work but all are badly corroded.

Electron · Jul 15, 2021

LukeD · Jul 15, 2021

lamp Post in garden with hanging baskets.....No shame !

DPG · Jul 15, 2021

Jeez that looks like something out of Kew Gardens. Did the shop not have a smaller model that might fit in more with a modern housing estate?

Sorry, that might not be much help really ?

Can you get replacement holders and swap them out? What sort of fitting are they?

UNG · Jul 15, 2021

A google search of decorative period lighting columns shows some similar columns alternatively a specialist lighting company like Christopher Wray may be able to advise you.
There are a lot of companies out there doing them just struggling to remember the names from when I did that sort of work

Pete999 · Jul 15, 2021

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Shouldn't effect the electrics.

MJPD29 · Jul 15, 2021

They look go be ES or BC lamps so surely unless there is a corrodes lamp holder or bad connection a new lamp should suffice

telectrix · Jul 15, 2021

source 3 new lampholders and fit 'em.

Electron · Jul 15, 2021

telectrix said:
source 3 new lampholders and fit 'em.

I can't get to the lamp fittings, which are at the bottom of the lamp but accessible from the top. There is a lot of corrosion. No doubt the original filament lights kept everything dry, unlike the LED's.

Electron · Jul 15, 2021

LukeD said:
lamp Post in garden with hanging baskets.....No shame !

I think they get away with it as it's the last house in a cul-de-sac.

Mike Johnson · Jul 16, 2021

Don't know if yours are the same, but I have some that have a collar half way up the main post that is a clamp to the upper part, when the Allen bolts around the collar are undone the upper post slides into the lower part of the lamp post, the only thing to take care with is the cable to the post usually accessible through a panel on the outside of the base, this needs careful manipulating as the post is lowered.

brianmoooore · Jul 16, 2021

Mike Johnson said:
Don't know if yours are the same, but I have some that have a collar half way up the main post that is a clamp to the upper part, when the Allen bolts around the collar are undone the upper post slides into the lower part of the lamp post, the only thing to take care with is the cable to the post usually accessible through a panel on the outside of the base, this needs careful manipulating as the post is lowered.

Looks like it's constructed like this in the last pic. The top of the post, at the bottom of the pic. looks like it's iron, and the three branch bit and lamps look like alloy.

Electron · Jul 16, 2021

brianmoooore said:
Looks like it's constructed like this in the last pic. The top of the post, at the bottom of the pic. looks like it's iron, and the three branch bit and lamps look like alloy.

I think you are correct. I know there are a lot of reproductions around but I think this is an original cast iron lamp post with the original top removed and replaced with an aluminium top. I think I'll try to remove the lampholders and replace them. I suspect the original filament bulbs kept everything warm and dry unlike the LED's. Nothing I can do about that.

Mike Johnson · Jul 17, 2021

I think that may be the case, especially as the polycarbonate inside the lamp has gone that lovely shade of Orange that they all do with age, cast iron post normally will take the load of a ladder if adequately fixed at the bottom, but I would be tempted to take a small tower to site and access them that way, TLC sell lamp posts similar to the one shown, I am sure they could get replacements/spares they are normally very good that way.