3-wire rotary switch

[dahling]

help !!!! please...i have an old table lamp that i am trying to rewire and it has a 3 wire control socket ....well i dont have a clue ..the bottom has a little night lite type bulb and the top has 1 lite bulb and the socket has three screws with the lower 2 wires coming up to the socket hooking in ??? no idea...so theres 2 sets of wire and three screws to hook them on one nickle one brass and one it looks like copper..the lights come on together or one at a time .can some one please enlighten me??? no one seems to know any thing about this breed .. thanks

[Wgoodrich]

Either light socket must have the black wire connected to the brass screw and the white wire connected to the silver screw.

The two pole switch is connected only to the black hot wire. The black of your cord will connect to the one odd colored screw as power coming in. The black going to one light socket connect to either of the two remaining screws. The black going to the second light socket connect to the last remaining screw. The switch controls the black hot wire going to both lights sockets separately. The white wire of the cord connects directly to the white wires going to both light sockets connecting to the silver screw of those light sockets.

Hope this helps

Wg