LOL yeah, standard speaker wire or lamp cord works really well. In that case, the 8 foot metal strip would probably AMPLIFY the interference!
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Speaking of lamp cord, I'm starting restoration on a very 1970s looking 3-way table lamp my dad found and gave me. It apparently was in a knocked-over garbage can (along with some screen cloth) in the dump in a totally abandoned logging town they explored a bit. It's rusty but should clean up well and I'm excited, I have a thing for 70s light fixtures, unlike most people, so I want to restore it. I'll post pics.
Socket is in surprisingly good shape, for being outdoors. I might even be able to save it. I shot it full of Corrosion Block and was able to turn the switch with a pair of needle-nose pliers (plastic knob is gone) but have yet to try powering it up; that will be on my dim-bulb tester at first to make sure there aren't any shorts. It needs a shade too, but that is the easy part.
Lamp will probably be a GE 3-way spiral I already have, or maybe I'll stick in a preheat circline adapter, that would look appropriate in a lamp of that era. I'm thinking it's pretty old, the place it came from has been abandoned for, my dad guesses, since the late 1970s. But when restored it will have character and a neat story behind it a cheap modern lamp wouldn't have. I actually have quite a few vintage non-fluorescent portable lamps in my house I've accumulated over the last few years. I wish I still had a few of my late mother's; we had some nice old ones I really miss now. Two in particular.