Off Topic - Oozing Goo - The Lava Lamp Syndicate2024-03-28T10:05:01Zhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/categories/off-topic/listForCategory?categoryId=1566398%3ACategory%3A37&feed=yes&xn_auth=noMerry Christmastag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2023-12-24:1566398:Topic:8801072023-12-24T15:40:26.317ZClaude Jhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/ClaudeJohnson
<p>We here at Lava Lab Creations Wish Everyone a Colossal Christmas<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12335587052?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12335587052?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p>We here at Lava Lab Creations Wish Everyone a Colossal Christmas<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12335587052?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12335587052?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p> A Special Thankstag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2023-01-12:1566398:Topic:8691692023-01-12T11:16:47.195ZClaude Jhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/ClaudeJohnson
<p>A Special thanks to everyone that called and emailed me over the last few months of the year to send reassuring words of encouragement and support.</p>
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<p>I've come to realize that most of our clients are my true friends</p>
<p>Everyone has been very supportive and I could not cope with tragedy without you.</p>
<p>People I've known for years won't even return a phone call when needed<br></br>Not so in the lava community</p>
<p>I receive phone calls from clients and gooheads that I've…</p>
<p>A Special thanks to everyone that called and emailed me over the last few months of the year to send reassuring words of encouragement and support.</p>
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<p>I've come to realize that most of our clients are my true friends</p>
<p>Everyone has been very supportive and I could not cope with tragedy without you.</p>
<p>People I've known for years won't even return a phone call when needed<br/>Not so in the lava community</p>
<p>I receive phone calls from clients and gooheads that I've known for a long time as well as ones I only communicated briefly or not at all<br/>For this, I sincerely thank you</p>
<p><br/>In case you are not a Facebook user, you would not know that there has been tragedy struck in my life</p>
<p>I lost my wife a few days shy of our 25-year anniversary and 3 beloved pets all raised from babies - all within the last 60 days of 2022.<br/>Then for a Piece de 'resistance Christmas present, my Gmail and Facebook were hacked and disabeled.<br/><br/>Needless to say, it's been a rough time.</p>
<p>Much of my time immediately afterward was spent sleeping in an effort to avoid additional depression.</p>
<p><br/>Nightmares still happen and will probably never go away<br/>I write this at 5 am because yet another one<br/><br/></p>
<p>Now, I bury myself in work and projects to keep going</p>
<p>Words of praise for the product and the website are what keeps me going.<br/>It's great to know we make a difference and can put a smile on people's faces while saving historic lamps. I now dedicate my daily effort to supporting my true friends, the lava community.</p>
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<p>More changes and improvements, along with an increase in the product line, are forthcoming</p>
<p>Keep an eye out and register for the email list at LavaLabCreations.com</p>
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<p><br/><br/>Dean Koontz has also provided support and tears at the same time</p>
<div dir="auto">Grief can destroy you –or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it<span> </span>scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it’s over and you’re alone, you begin to see that it wasn’t just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the way of life, every event and precious moment of it.</div>
<div dir="auto">~Dean Koontz</div>
<p></p> Earthquake Proofing?tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2021-05-01:1566398:Topic:8428262021-05-01T06:51:06.412ZMichael Stronghttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/1ecjqgdtukylb
<p>Out of curiosity how has your collection fared during an earthquake of any magnitude? Did your collection survive? How have you Earthquake proofed them? I just started collecting, and I'm genuinely curious on how to prepare my lamps in case a strong earthquake occurs. I don't want to lose my collection. Especially my vintage ones. I live in California, so preparing for one is very important. I'd like to hear some tips and some stories good or bad about your collection after one. </p>
<p>Out of curiosity how has your collection fared during an earthquake of any magnitude? Did your collection survive? How have you Earthquake proofed them? I just started collecting, and I'm genuinely curious on how to prepare my lamps in case a strong earthquake occurs. I don't want to lose my collection. Especially my vintage ones. I live in California, so preparing for one is very important. I'd like to hear some tips and some stories good or bad about your collection after one. </p> cleaning MSR filter for drinkingtag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2021-04-11:1566398:Topic:8415952021-04-11T01:50:53.497ZMichael Stronghttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/1ecjqgdtukylb
<p>So I bought an MSR filter a while back to filter out my lamps. It wasn't working for me. It kept on getting clogged, and I was filtering Grande, so you can imagine how annoying it was to stop and have to clean it out every 500ml. So recently I purchased a Büchner funnel filtration kit to do my filtering for my other lamps. I want to clean out the MSR, so I can use it when I go hiking. So does anyone know how to clean it out to get it back to water consumption use? Would it be advisable to…</p>
<p>So I bought an MSR filter a while back to filter out my lamps. It wasn't working for me. It kept on getting clogged, and I was filtering Grande, so you can imagine how annoying it was to stop and have to clean it out every 500ml. So recently I purchased a Büchner funnel filtration kit to do my filtering for my other lamps. I want to clean out the MSR, so I can use it when I go hiking. So does anyone know how to clean it out to get it back to water consumption use? Would it be advisable to even use it again for drinking?</p> Lava Speaker - in progresstag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2021-02-27:1566398:Topic:8330362021-02-27T14:53:12.982ZLavalicioushttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/AvaVali
<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>I'm currently working on a speaker that combines lava with sound - so it's actually the vibrations of the music that make the lava move.</p>
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<p>So far I've given a new form to the speaker where its been fused with acrylic and I will do testing with the lava over the next couple of days.</p>
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<p>I'd love to get some feedback about what you think so far - your thoughts and general goo wisdom is very welcome!</p>
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<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>I'm currently working on a speaker that combines lava with sound - so it's actually the vibrations of the music that make the lava move.</p>
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<p>So far I've given a new form to the speaker where its been fused with acrylic and I will do testing with the lava over the next couple of days.</p>
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<p>I'd love to get some feedback about what you think so far - your thoughts and general goo wisdom is very welcome!</p>
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<p>Thanks :)</p>
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<p></p> Anyone annoyed with how loose the grande lava lamp's cap aretag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2021-01-29:1566398:Topic:8075642021-01-29T08:55:39.071ZMichael Stronghttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/1ecjqgdtukylb
<p>I've never been a fan of how loose the grand lava lamp's cap is. Sorta adds onto the cheap quality of LAVA LITE lamps. Well anyways I found a solution for that. I've been using extra thick toilet gaskets from Home Depot or Lowes, and they fit surprising well. Now I just need to find one for the 16.3" lamps …<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8492870272?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8492870272?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></p>
<p>I've never been a fan of how loose the grand lava lamp's cap is. Sorta adds onto the cheap quality of LAVA LITE lamps. Well anyways I found a solution for that. I've been using extra thick toilet gaskets from Home Depot or Lowes, and they fit surprising well. Now I just need to find one for the 16.3" lamps <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8492870272?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8492870272?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p> All the (dangerous) Things You Always Wanted to Do With a Lava Lamptag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2019-10-27:1566398:Topic:7009352019-10-27T23:58:42.383ZItsLadyJadeyTTVhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/Maryah
<p>The King of Random uploaded a video recently, experimenting with Lava Lamps in extreme ways!<br/> (Aside from a slightly ignorant outlook on what's inside the lamp it's really great!)<br/> <br/> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiSIrQkTQQM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiSIrQkTQQM</a></p>
<p>The King of Random uploaded a video recently, experimenting with Lava Lamps in extreme ways!<br/> (Aside from a slightly ignorant outlook on what's inside the lamp it's really great!)<br/> <br/> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiSIrQkTQQM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiSIrQkTQQM</a></p> In loving memorytag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2019-03-02:1566398:Topic:6888302019-03-02T03:30:42.641ZClaude Jhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/ClaudeJohnson
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1241625887?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1241625887?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p> Lava Lamp Podcasttag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2018-09-26:1566398:Topic:6821482018-09-26T19:17:08.784ZRoryhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/RoryDunn
<p>Great podcast about Edward Craven Walker and the history of the lava lamp! </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA2Q2PTFY4U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA2Q2PTFY4U</a></p>
<p>Great podcast about Edward Craven Walker and the history of the lava lamp! </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA2Q2PTFY4U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA2Q2PTFY4U</a></p> ONE of My other expensive hobbies !! Check out my new gaming pc i builttag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2018-07-15:1566398:Topic:6797502018-07-15T15:58:19.771ZJonhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/Jon366
<p>So ive been out of the lava lamp thing for a month or two now as i moved onto my PC.. Finally updated my entire computer.. My case i had was 14 years old, my keyboard a mechanical keyboard from 1996 (old keyboards are the best trust me", got a new mouse, my monitor was 14 years old right when CRT's switched to LCD's this was my 2nd lcd ive ever had lol. Also since my PC is a gaming pc i watercool the cpu and ive been re-using my watercooling for 17 years since like 2001. Its an old…</p>
<p>So ive been out of the lava lamp thing for a month or two now as i moved onto my PC.. Finally updated my entire computer.. My case i had was 14 years old, my keyboard a mechanical keyboard from 1996 (old keyboards are the best trust me", got a new mouse, my monitor was 14 years old right when CRT's switched to LCD's this was my 2nd lcd ive ever had lol. Also since my PC is a gaming pc i watercool the cpu and ive been re-using my watercooling for 17 years since like 2001. Its an old waterblock i just modded by making brackets to fit on current cpu sockets. My chair was falling apart and 8 years old as well</p>
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<p>Decided it was time to upgrade everything. My PC hardware was only about 3-4 years old but in gaming terms outdated.</p>
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<p>I spent $4700 on everything, the video card is a 1080ti Asus strix which was $820 in its own, cpu is a 2700x AMD Ryzen+ Or Zen 2 not sure what AMD wants to call it because it keep changing names. X470 Gigabyte Gaming 7 motherboard, 16gb of G.skill Flare X CL14 some of the best memory you can buy. Ree-used my Power supply since its not outdated. Also got a new Creative Soundblaster AE 5 sound card</p>
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<p>Watercooling is a custom loop with 2 360mm radiators, one on top with 3 120mm fans one in front of the case with 6 120mm fans on it. 2 120mm on the bottom and 1 140mm in the rear. I Used soft tubing i dont like the hard tubing craze out today "people use hard tubing to make it seem less cluttered but with soft i can remove stuff without draining anything" I also have 2 450ml reservoirs with Helix coils in them like the residentevil Tvirus blue and green helix tubes in the movies. My Video card has a thermaltake waterblock on it.. EK Evo Supremacy block for the cpu </p>
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<p>The case is a Thermaltake View 71 all glass door front top, sides case. Monitor is a 27 inch Curved 2560x1440 144hz monitor. New Gladius 2 Mouse, and a Thermaltake Poseidon Keyboard. Also bought a Gaming chair too.</p>
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