B&Q Toadstool - internals after conversion

This Lights of B&Q Toadstool bollard light, dating back to 2007, is very unique in the fact it takes a 22w circular lamp. The only thing that let down is the HF ballast that cold started the tubes. 9 years after first purchasing it, I decided it was time to switch start it, so gathered the correct things together, made a wiring loom, and ripped the old driver out, and fitted a proper Schwabe ballast, and changed the lamp holder out to one with a built in starter socket. It now strikes perfectly hopefully adding years of life to the lamp, and years of reliability to the fixture.

The lamp holder I needed was one with a built in starter socket, due to the fitting having no where to actually mount one reliably. I ended up on good old eBay searching for them. I had to rewire the two connectors from the solid core strand to flex cable instead. The problem I had however was that the original cables were crimped into the connectors inside. I had to figure a way of opening the crimps without damaging them, so they would then accept the new cable, and then close them so they would clamp the cables firmly in place. I think this was actually the most time consuming part of the conversion.