Oozing Goo - The Lava Lamp Syndicate

Hello all

I am new here so please bear with me. This seems to be the 'place to be' for lava lamp troubleshooting though :) Apologies for the longwinded story but I thought the more info for you guys, the more help you could give me.

I bought a massive lava lamp for my girlfreind on Xmas Eve, wasnt cheap but it is beautiful - or rather was. Foolishly I laid the bottle down in the boot of the car and got home and 3/4 of the liquid had leaked out. I was gutted to the point of tears as I had to tell my girlfreind when she came home later that day that her main Xmas prezzie was knacked then I found this website and hope is born!!! :D

The lamp is a Sunset Flask (stands 72cm high) - you can see it here :

http://www.febland.co.uk/lighting/ll318l_sunset_flask_lava_lamp.html

The shop I bought it from were supplied it by these guys (Febland) but all I can see on the base where the bulb is, is Made in China and the words Table Lamp with a model number of MG-S2400

Im hoping someone can give me some hints on replacing the liquid. The wax is actually yellow and the water WAS purple. There is still a quarter of the liquid in the bottle. I will obviously take the cap off (somehow) and empty it and start again but I would like to know what to do exactly to get this to work. I saw on other threads there was a guy who replaced cloudy Mathmos' with tap water, food colouring, washing up liquid and epsom salts but my lamp isnt a Mathmos so would this work for my lamp? Im not sure about the amount of water it holds, but its quite big.

The lamp was on display in the shop so most of the wax cooled near the neck of the bottle and there is a small layer of wax in the bottom of the bottle which appears to have a coil in it as well. The reason it leaked is because the lid/cap has a leak. I turned the bottle sideways and tilted it so that the water would go towards the top of the bottle and it started pouring out. I know you should always keep them upright but Ive gotten away with it in the past with my smaller Astro Mathmos'.

Any advice would be very helpful and I would be forever in your debt if I can get this Xmas pressie to work again - sorry for going on...

Jimbo

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Ok will give it a go tonight - will take some out and just replace it with plain filtered water and see what happens.. Thanks a lot - will let you know how it goes. I think when I topped the bottle up to finish the job, and added more salt, I didnt let the wax melt fully (my impatient streak again) so I just kept adding more and more salt solution :) oops :)

Jimbo

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