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Electricity creates a circuit through a light bulb by running through the metal tab at the bottom of the socket, where the bulb sits, through the bulb, and through the metal threads where the bulb is screwed in.

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1 - Get a piece of plywood from Home Depot or wherever, a couple of 2 x 2’s and build a box to fit your gear leg. (see drawing below) 2 -  Print and fill out the order form below with correct addresses, home & shipping addresses, phone #’s where you can be reached, along with specific instructions. 3 - Enclose this information INSIDE the box, in a zip lock baggie you’ve stolen from your wife’s kitchen. Be sure the gear leg is secured properly. (we drill small holes and fasten the gear leg to the box bottom with wire ties so it can’t move around.) Then pack it with paper. 4 - Write your name and address on the box top with a permanent marker, so we don’t lose it in our shop. 5 - Send it to us UPS. We will use this magnificent box to ship the gear leg back to you. 6 - Enclose a check for $100.00, we will refund any overpayment, or bill you for underpayment. 7 - Secure this beautiful box with screws. Note: You build airplanes. This should be easy for you.

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With a switch, the neutral (and ground if there is one) wire stays uncut and the hot wire is cut so that the circuit can be broken and unbroken as the switch is set to the off or on position.  Using the hot wire as the cut wire is important to maintain the correct polarity all the way from the plug or hard-wiring to the socket.

We recommend wiring the switch before wiring the socket and/or plug because if you make a mistake with the switch wiring and have to cut the wire shorter as a result, it will be less work (and aggravation) if you don't have to also rewire the plug or socket.

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(If you do not follow these simple instructions, you lose. If you follow these instructions to the letter, you win, and the job gets done in an orderly time frame.)

When wired properly, the metal threads will never be “hot” or give you a shock, whether the switch is on or off. When wired incorrectly, the threads – and any metal touching the threads, including the outside of the socket, if it is conductive metal, or the threads of a light bulb – can give you a shock whether the switch is on or off. Therefore, it is important to follow the instructions for the hot and neutral wires carefully for both the plug and the socket and a switch if you decide to use one.

You can attach wire to a plug, socket, or switch without paying attention to hot and neutral, and your light will operate without anything seeming wrong. However, if your electrical component, plug, socket, or switch, is wired correctly with regard to the polarity, the hot and neutral wires, you will get some protections from shock that you will not get if you don't pay attention to the polarity.