Oozing Goo - The Lava Lamp Syndicate

Hi,

I've got a Telstar Mathmos bottle who's got a lazy flow.

Nearly never make it to the top, very slow flow.

I switch the bottle with another Telstar Lamp, this is not a base issue as the other bottle works well.

This is a formula issue.

What can I add to cure this lamp?

A little Propylene Glycol? Some Glycerin?

Something else? (I don't want to use salt in my Mathmos')

thanks

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- How long have you run the lamp for - is it hot enough?

- Where did you get it from - if from Mathmos then just return it

- I think propylene glycol or glycerine wont really affect it, i have used epson salts with a fue mathmos bottles and they do the job fine. 

This lamp take a long time to run (for a telstar), but even at full temp, it never flows like my other telstar.

It flows, but really a lazy way, and has always been like that (I bought it a long time ago, so no return).

Have you been running / had it for a while as it could be that the wax may be dead.

Really what i would suggest would be to add some epson salt mix to it - that should help it flow better.

No I barely used it because of the bad flow.

I don't want to put salt in it.

Propylene Glycol could work ... get the lamp up to temperature, and slowly add PG in small quantities, allow to cycle for a while ... watch then repeat. Slowly slowly - too much & it'll blob like mad ;o(

Thanks Simon, but I'm sorry I didn't saw your message before as I already added few drops tonight.

I hope I didn't put too much as the warming stage is strange.

Will put the result in few hours, but I'm a little affraid...

Don't mess with the messer....It never works...;)

No change yet. I added few more drops again and it's still lazy (the most boring lamp ever)

I think I will add some gookit surf.

I don't think adding surf to it is a good idea - its a issue with the water densty not the consistancy of the wax.

If you find that its rising and flowing properly but not braking up then add some surf.

I added at least 10ml of propylene Glycol, and a dozen drops of surf.

This is not completely a succes, as the lamp is now more alive (good) but it's because of water bubbles I didn't have before (bad).

So I'll let it run, hoping to get rid of the bubbles (but without the bubbles the flow is still poor).

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