Well, I rewired my grandparents' vanity light today in their bathroom. The ancient thing had three bakelite sockets that were all broken and and lamps were flickering. The insulation on the wires was all cracked and stuff so we went to lowe's and bought three ceramic sockets and bought 4ft of #14 black and #14 white wire and I rewired the fixture and we replaced the 60W incandescents with 53W coated halogen GEs just like i did in my basement. Nice and BRIGHT in there now!
It's an old vanity fixture with three gooseneck lights and open bottom decorative glass shades. I needed a big wirenuts for all four #14 white wires and another big wirenut for the four black #14 wires too.
When i opened it up there was a second pair of hot and neutral wires in there that i assume have 24/7 power in case someone were to mount a vanity with an outlet on it. It was nice that the electrician took some time in laying out his work. The romex was 2 14AWG black cloth romex with (i think) rubber insulater conductors.
Regardless, my grandparents are very pleased that it works and how much brighter it is (and they save 21 watts too) and payed me with a new voltmeter, plug-in outlet tester, one of those power detectors that lights up and beeps when you stick it near live wiring, and a 175W MV lamp from Lowe's.
Interestingly, the Sylvania lamp from lowes is from June 2000! It's one of those circluar sleeves, not a box. It's a ED28 /DX Sylvania 175W MV lamp. I swear it looks Philips-made. It's says the manufacturing date right on the base. I'll grab a pic sometime. VERY dusty lamp but i cleaned it off and lit it in the R1 and it works, needless to say. Once in awhile you'll find an NOS lamp out of no where. I bought an NOS Philips F20T12 BLB from the 90s at a Home Depot earlier this year. I saw the cool 90s Philips end caps way on the back of the shelve and grabbed it!.