Light socket extensions?

[MW]

To all you sparkies out there, this might be a dumb question, but is it possible to buy an extension piece for a light socket?
What I want to do is, instead of twisting in a light bulb to the socket, can I buy an extension piece (say 75-100mm in length), twist that in like a normal light bulb, then attach the light bulb to that? The current bulb is up inside a casing inside the roof cavity, sort of acting like a down light, but it does not give enough light like this.

Any help would be great, cheers!

[Footy Chick]

bloody sparkies... i renovated my kitchen 4 years ago and still running the fridge from an extension lead from the laundry.

I train for the only football club in the world that doesnt have a sparky and everyone else wants to charge me ridiculous amounts of money to put in an extra socket...

I figure the only way I'm gonna get this done at any decent price is to marry one.

[Dogwatcher]

Speaking of light bulbs:

How many students does it take to change a light bulb?

Temple College: 100 - one to change the light bulb and 99 to praise and worship God for the life of the light bulb and to celebrate the new light bulb and have a huge service about the 'going out of the old and bringing in of the new'.

Scotch College: Two - one to call the electrician and one to call their father to pay the cheque

St Peters: Two - one to mix the martinis and one to call the electrician

CBC: Eleven - one to change the light bulb and ten to share the experience when he bends over

Elizabeth high School: None - Elizabeth doesn't have electricity.

Concordia: Two - One to change the light bulb and one to crack under the pressure

St Ignatius: Just one. The school captain comes back after finishing year 12 and the headmaster stands by to congratulate him on his achievements.

Parafield Gardens High: 0 - looks better in the dark anyway.

Loreto: None – they’re all too busy playing touch football, wearing their pearls and their grounds men will do it anyway

Uni of SA: Seventy-six - one to change the light bulb, fifty to protest the light bulb’s right to not change, and twenty-five to hold a counter protest

Gepps Cross Girls: 0 - These girls don’t have time to change a light bulb, they’re too busy looking up each others skirts.

Salisbury High: None - Salisbury looks better in the dark

Annesly: One - she holds the bulb and the world revolves around her

Cabra dominican college:Twenty - one to change it and 19 to make a song and dance about the emotion they went through while changing the light bulb

Prince Alfred College: Five - one to design a nuclear powered one that never needs changing, one to figure out how to power the rest of Adelaide using that nuked light bulb, two to install it, and one to write the computer program

St Aloysius: Five - One to change the lightbulb and four to find her the perfect outfit to wear for the occasion

Modbury Heights: Three - one to change it and two to figure out howto get high off the old one

Rostrevor: Ten - one to change it, one back up if the first guy's too drunk and the other eight to pray that it works

Adelaide Uni: Four - one to change it, one to call Parliament about their progress, and two to throw the old bulb at Flinders students

Brighton High school: Two - one to change the bulb and the other to say loudly how she did it as well as a private school student

Mary MacKillop: Three - one to change it and the other two to stand up on chairs on either side of her with cans of hairspray just in case of the emergency that her 20cm high fringe drops 1cm

Seaton High School: Five - one to change the bulb and four to do an interpretive dance about it

St Michael's High School: 0 - they've finally learnt that when you're that stoned, light hurts your eyes, so it's better just to leave it alone.

Trinity College: 900 - Changing a light bulb would be like going on an excursion for these guys, so the whole school would turn up for the celebration.

Pembroke: Eight - it's not that one isn't smart enough to do it, it's just that they're all violently twitching from too much stress

Pulteney Grammar: 0 - No one wants to get their hands dirty.

St Peter's Girls: None - they are all too drunk to notice

St Dominic’s: 0 - It's not that they can't do it, they just look better with the lights off

OLSH: Thirty - 1 to call the electrician and 29 to flirt with him when he arrives

Reynella East high school: Change them? Is that what they're meant to be used for?

Blackfriars: Fourteen - 2 to look out for a teacher while the other 12 see who can piss high enough to reach it

Thomas More College: 10 - 1 to change the light bulb, 2 to get smashed and drunk because of it and 7 more to "support" the person who is changing by cheering him on and giving them weed and shit.

St Paul's: Five - 1 to change the light bulb and the other 4 to bash him up cos he's a fag.

Siena College: Four- one to change the light bulb, one to stare up her skirt while she does it, one to hold the vodka bottle and the other to ring around making bomb threats to St Michael's and searching for PAC parties - to scab the free alcohol.

Daws Road: 82 - 1 to take the old lightbulb out and 81 to figure out how to make it work again because they can't afford a new one

St Mary's: Only one, but it takes 3 others to bitch-slap her because she was getting all the attention

Walford: 2 - 1 to change the light, one to jump around because it's the most exciting thing that's ever happened there

Wilderness: Twenty - 1 to change it and 19 to bitch about it

Mitcham Girls: 10 - 1 to change it, 4 to hold a memorial service for being such a strong female lightbulb, that did women-kind proud, and 5 to boast about how they didn't need a man to change their light.

Unley High: 1 - one uses his mobile to call someone else to fix it, the rest of the boys are at shoppo, smoking and gelling their hair for when the Siena buses arrive...

Norwood-Morialta High: 5 - one to change it after the other 4 have organised a student committee to look into lighting matters and how it affects students. They then go on (sadly) about how great it is to be at the best non-private high school in South Australia.

Marryatville: 21-one to change it, 20 to write a song about

[Dirko]

Daws Road: 82 - 1 to take the old lightbulb out and 81 to figure out how to make it work again because they can't afford a new one

Called Pasadena now...went there when known as Daws...and yep sad but true....

Would've been more like, don't replace it so the room is dark and then we can ambush the Aussies !!

[BenchedEagle]

U got 1 for Craigmore HS DW?

[Dissident]

To all you sparkies out there, this might be a dumb question, but is it possible to buy an extension piece for a light socket?
What I want to do is, instead of twisting in a light bulb to the socket, can I buy an extension piece (say 75-100mm in length), twist that in like a normal light bulb, then attach the light bulb to that? The current bulb is up inside a casing inside the roof cavity, sort of acting like a down light, but it does not give enough light like this.

Any help would be great, cheers!

I did something like that ouside my rental house.
The light outside the back door wasn't in the best position so I got a dual head light that had a 1m cable, which in turn plugged in to the standard socket outside the door. Got it from Bunnings I think.

[gadj1976]

You must be able to MW, cos I did the opposite. I replaced light fittings with ones that were fitted into the ceiling.

I've also had to do as you ask. I went to Mitre 10 and got some light fitting sockets, brought the electrical cord through the hole in the ceiling, purchased a cap to cover the hole/cord coming thru the ceiling and bobs your uncle.

[MW]

You must be able to MW, cos I did the opposite. I replaced light fittings with ones that were fitted into the ceiling.

I've also had to do as you ask. I went to Mitre 10 and got some light fitting sockets, brought the electrical cord through the hole in the ceiling, purchased a cap to cover the hole/cord coming thru the ceiling and bobs your uncle.

Cheers for the responses. Just went down to bunnings and found what I was looking for!