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   maddog3 | Jul 12, 2005 05:01pm | #1

   First thing you do is ....SHUT THE POWER OFF

   perhaps you can use something similar to this?

   http://www.brandlighting.com/landscape_lighting_mini_steplights.html

   What voltage????
   if you have 12 volt fixtures ,maybe something like this

   http://www.aifittings.com/l_2.htm#LV, instead of a box (this is just a suggestion) Arlington has many choices

   try to find aluminum or polycarbonate fixtures

   I'm in the Midwest and steel boxes / conduit installed in concrete, brick, or plaster begin to corrode almost immediately,

   we mount the fixtures directly to the wall .. especially exterior walls!!

   you might think about plastic boxes as a replacement since step lights weigh almost nothing.

   I don't know how your boxes are installed ,so all I can tell you is to just get them out as best you can, do you have access from inside the house ? "old " work plastic boxes have ears that swing to grab the inside of the stucco, and the boxes that are embedded in the concrete can be mounted with anchors appropriate for concrete (Tapcons)

   .....Although your light are "only " twelve years old, installed they way they are ...they would be ancient around here

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   jgealy | Jul 12, 2005 10:05pm | #2

   Thanks for the tip. Lights are 110V. Hopefully they ran PVC conduit in the concrete wall, not metal. The framed wall with stucco is easier to deal with than the solid concrete wall. I can cut the stucco away, then patch around the new light. The solid wall, I'm not sure what I'm gonna do yet. Dynamite comes to mind... BTW, these are what were called "bricklights" at the time. About the size of a brick.

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   maddog3 | Jul 12, 2005 10:36pm | #3

   What type of box is in the concrete now ? did you have any luck with the lighting link I sent you ? "