Yesterday at the repair cafe someone brought in a lamp. They'd acquire it from a charity shop, that apperently didn't want to sell it because it was unsafe, they seemed pleased that they'd managed to persuade the charity shop to part with it.
The pat tester reported a problem, but couldn't do the full test, they'd not brought the bulb of course.
So I took a look. A multimeter along the flex pointed to weirdness in the switch.
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