And I fixed my husband’s Ottlight lamp. He’d asked me to take a look at the switch, which wasn’t working.

I had to take the whole thing apart to get to the switch. I got the idea of what might be wrong from an appliance repairman who fixed a faulty dryer switch a few weeks earlier. The actual switch was under a button that had become misaligned.

After removing 15 very reluctant, tiny, Phillips head screws, I discovered that’s what had happened, the switch had worked itself out of the slot that was supposed to hold it under the on/off button.

I glued the switch back in place, with crazy glue.

I plugged the lamp up, and the switch worked!

Now, after a much needed break, I need to get those 15 screws back in.