How to put together enlarger lamp

[mehguy]

I had taken apart my enlarger lamp and I can't seen to put it together again.... There are 2 screws on the top that hold the light but the holes they go into don't seem to have threads. PLEASE HELP

 

[paul ron]

there may have been nuts in the fixture. remove the bulb, take the recepticle appart.

 

[mehguy]

there may have been nuts in the fixture. remove the bulb, take the recepticle appart.

Are you referring to take apart the bulb fixture itself? Because when I took out those 2 screws, one of them I just had to pull on to get out.

 

[paul ron]

yes, there has to be nuts holding the screws in, otherwise whats holding it on? take the bulb out n see if the nuts are ratteling in there?

oh dont forget to unplug it!

 

[mehguy]

yes, there has to be nuts holding the screws in, otherwise whats holding it on? take the bulb out n see if the nuts are ratteling in there?

oh dont forget to unplug it!

I checked, there doesn't seem to be any nuts...

 

[paul ron]

did you open the recepticle? see where the wires connect? see the 2 holes those screws go into?

 

[Bill Burk]

OK but you have two screws holding the ceramic fixture together... I see the heads in your second picture.

Do you think those might be the two screws that do the job? What happens if you take them out and run them all the way through?

In other words... are those two screws supposed to go through the two holes in the spring-top, then through the ceramic fixture.

 

[mehguy]

did you open the recepticle? see where the wires connect? see the 2 holes those screws go into?

Sorry, I thought you meant that the nuts might have fallen into where the condenser was. But yeah, I opened up the light fixture and found 2 nuts.

 

[paul ron]

ok good you got it now.

 

[mehguy]

ok good you got it now.

Ok, but how do I keep the nuts still? They just seem to wiggle around.

EDIT: Never mind this. Took me a couple tries to get it, but got it back together.