I have an old floor lamp with a mogul (large base) bulb as its center light. It takes a 3-way, and I have been putting 100/200/300 watt bulbs into it. The mogul bulbs are getting hard to find and a bit expensive, so I thought I'd save some money by buying an adaptor so I could put a regular bulb in the center lamp. Found one at a hardware store; it's ceramic, and the clerk said it was good up to 600 watts (is that possible?).
The adaptor fit the socket well, but when I screwed a regular-base 200 watt bulb into it & turned on the power - no light!
Now I am trying to remove the adaptor, but it's pretty firmly seated in the socket and there's no way to get a grip on it. The socket is made of ceramic and looks old; it may be original.
I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to remove the adaptor, and/or what I messed up that's causing it to not work correctly.
Thanks, Sara