Shane Burke's Page

"It was my Grandmothers who recently passed away. She had it for as long as I can remember and some time before that im sure. It is a true treasure to me as she raised me my whole life."

"I am glad everything worked out for you so well and so easily. That lamp is beautiful! Where did you find it?"

"Wow, great to see it in all it's glory. Grats bro!"

"So I just wanted to post an update to my Lava lamp issue. The adding of the distilled water did the trick. Ended up having to put enough in to bring the level back to where it was supposed to be. I want to say thank you so so very much for the…"

"FYI, there is a good likelihood  from viewing the photos that it came with Yellow fluid  Over time it fades and can be resurrected with food coloring if you so choose to do so"

"Great to hear bro.  Glad you can have some good memories of your grandmother when you see this beautiful lamp going through its motions.  I to have and acrylic multi colored square pattern lamp from the 50's-60's that my…"

"Thank you so much for the advise. The distilled water was the ticket. Still need to add just a little more but it is working 100 times better. So you can see in my picture that the fluid was a bit low in it. I have it almost filled back to the top…"

"if you have any stuck tidbits just hit them with a hair dryer and they should loosen up and float again"

"Well if all the wax is together now and no longer separated, then that means the fluid is the globe is too "heavy"  unscrew the top and add a little bit of distilled water at a time until the wax begins to fall.  Just add a…"

"Read Mr MaGoo's comment here: http://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/topics/how-to-fix-my-capri Follow-up pic of the fixed lamp here: http://oozinggoo.ning.com/photo/original-70-s-capri?xg_source=activity"

"So, Update. After turning it back on all the wax went back to just floating at the top. Please help!"