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"They might work. The only way to know for sure is by buying a sample and trying it out."

"That looks amazing!"

"looking good!"

"That is a lot of money! Hoping it works out this time"

"Looks really cool, you always have the most creative lava lamp concepts! My vote would be for red liquid with yellow wax because the red liquid would make it look orangeish and the color would shift as it moves through the globe."

"Probably nothing. If the water does manage to cause a short circuit it would just trip a circuit breaker (or GFI outlet). In either case unless your house was wired by an idiot, the power should shut off quickly enough to avoid any damage."

"That's a very cool and ambitious project and it looks like you are making good progress on it! The quality and condition of the glass are going to make all the difference in terms of how well it will respond to the change in…"

"I feel like the idea would definitely work. My concern would be the safety of the whole thing. Hot water would heat the globe significantly faster and hotter than a lightbulb. There would have to be some sort of temperature regulation mechanism to…"

"cut a square out around where the valve would go on the thing you want to repair, and then find an old pool float or air mattress or something (actually the big box stores probably have pool floats on clearance right now) and cut a bigger square out…"

"it's very precise and in my opinion a lot of luck. i've attempted probably like 10 lamps at this point and have only gotten good flow out of two of them. i will say one trick is to mix a wax that is going to be too heavy. you can always…"

"they look fantastic!"

"nice lamp!"

"way cool, excellent work!"

"everyone here will advise against using salt and dish soap these days, the main reasons being salt will corrode and dish soap contains other ingredients that may have unintended consequences. the ingredients people advise using in place of salt and…"

"That's a smart idea and would be a very fancy setup, although i'm not sure if i would be interested in building something similar as I don't run my lamps when I am not home at all out of fears that my shoddy wiring/construction will…"