Yeah we havn't had rain since the start of march and we got our first rain since then this week. it's a little gloomy today with on and off rain. I went into the laundry room and saw this hairy spider about the size of a penny hanging from my single lamp preheat industrial. I was going to get it with the broom but i didn't want it escaping and crawling near my street lights lol. so i left it alone. I'll let my dad get it lol. It'll probably be gone by then... I should have taped over the knockout where the pull chain used to be though to keep any bugs that want to nest in there out. Plus i don't know if any bugs like the taste of cloth... (the wires O_O)
as for the socket, i don't recommend leaving the borken socket in use or at the least don't use it exposed, tape it up. you don't want the lamp dropping out and god forbid someone happened to touch it.
I've never broken a socket relamping a fixture but the sockets in the preheaters in my cousins' grandma's garage are pretty corroded and don't hold the lamps very well. If the lamps need to be changed again, the sockets will probably need to be replaced too but if i can have those lights, the lamps will likely all work when i remove them given one of my cousins doesn't leave them on over the whole winter again lol. that's how the old lamps had died.
the replacement fixtures and lamps are already there, they just need to be installed.