eBay Lamp #1

Beautiful deep blue/ royal lava. Arrived cloudy, it's about 50% clearer than when it arrived. Just wish the flow was better. It leaked a little in shipping too. :(

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Comment by Carol on September 13, 2015 at 7:10am: Mine hate the a/c!!!! I run my kits full blast on 60 watt'ers and they're still stubborn!!!

Comment by VOXul on September 11, 2015 at 9:46pm: What Keith said too, drafts and any kind of cool breeze hitting a lamp will mess with it. If I have my ceiling fan running over my grandes it takes 5+ hours for them to start moving full meltdown, if they meltdown at all.

Comment by Keith on September 11, 2015 at 8:55pm: Those wax chunks do clear up sometimes, results may vary!! lol

Extra heat may help but be careful! I don't think it needs much more heat, just a little. In hot weather you have to be careful of fans and A/C vents blowing across your lamps and cooling them

Comment by Carol on September 11, 2015 at 8:19pm: keep cycling it Sparty. you will hardly notice it, then one day you will be like, omg, this thing is clearer!! It's weird with the USA globes how they clear. My gf noticed my lamp in a pic one day on FB. She was like that new lamp looks a little cloudy. Then a few pics later, she was like, hey that lamp looks clear now, lol!!! As far as the chunky goes, you can do a boil down right on the base. I'm afraid to do that with my vintage lamps though. I don't wanna mess them up. The chunky don't bother me too much. I just attribute it to it's age and nostalgia.

Comment by SpartyGalRN on September 11, 2015 at 7:49pm: Carol, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

Thanks VOXul. It is a pretty color, exactly why I wanted it. Unfortunately the pic in the discussion below is the one the seller used on eBay. That's what it looked like before it made the treck across the country. Wish it arrived that way :(

Comment by Carol on September 11, 2015 at 7:39pm: If it's chunky, a 60 watt bulb won't help that. That comes from over running it. The lava is getting old. A lot of my vintage lamps have chunky wax. Is that what you're talking about?

Comment by VOXul on September 11, 2015 at 7:39pm: Nice wax color! It looks to be a bit clearer in that second picture you posted. I have had luck in boiling down a Jet that was separated and chunky, may work for your lamp if needed. You would have to pop the cap drain about 90% of the fluid and run the wax molten. GENTLY stir the wax with a chopstick and let cool. Refill with the original fluid and back in action. You might not have to do that though, nice lamp!

Comment by SpartyGalRN on September 11, 2015 at 7:17pm: You can't really tell in the picture, but the lava has a bunch of junk in it too. Do you think a 60w bulb would help?

Comment by Keith on September 10, 2015 at 7:28pm: column flow can happen when the globes are cooler. I personally like a mixture of column to blobs. this should clear up and flow better with more runs

Comment by Carol on September 10, 2015 at 3:22pm: My snakeskin is doing a lot of stuck in mound mode and column mode as well. I'm wondering if this is just a break-in phase as mine is new. If it hasn't been run in awhile, it may be that for you as well. I guess time will tell for both of us how these lamps end up.