[Charlie]

Ross,

The photo you are showing looks as if the the WIRE came out of the socket (if i am looking at that correctly)... you had mentioned the PIN breaking off.

If the wire came out, here's an idea. Take a fine hacksaw blade and try cutting the tip off the rivet from the backside of the socket. If the saw blade is to thick to work under the rivet head, you could try using a pocket knife to bend the head up just a bit so you can work the saw blade on it. Another choice might be using some small wire cutters to get up under there and snip it off (although you may end up ruining the cutters after that). Once you get those heads cut off, then you can take the two socket pieces apart to resolder the wire back in.

Once you've made that repair, you'd probably have to go to the hardware store and get some really small screws with nuts to put it back together.

If that isn't going to work, ya could obtain another socket with the wires intact and cut that old one off and splice the replacement on. If you don't have another one, I'm sure that i have one around here I could send ya.

Anyone else here have a suggestion? I would think this has happened to at least a few of us in the past.