Alpine PL3 3-Way Socket with Connection Cord, 7"

and a subscriber has a question if there's an easy way to take a lamp that just has an on-and-off socket and convert it so that you can use a three-way ball and it's actually very easy just to go down to the hardware store and pick up a 3-way socket and if there's no one there to help you an easy way to see if this is a 3-way socket is a standard on-off socket it's just going to have the center contact but a three-way is going to have this additional contact right next to it so to convert it all we need to do is first remove the heart make sure you unplug it and remove the light bulb and just squeeze the harp sometimes there's retaining clips that hold in place and once we have the harp off all we have to do in most cases for this type of socket just squeeze it and pull it up and that removes the outer shell and then you can just pull out the socket and you're always going to have this