Can anyone give me the basics of cycling to clear cloudy liquid?

[Jonas Clark-Elliott]

I had a lamp arrive rather hazy. I know there's a cycling technique that sometimes helps. Can someone give me the straight skinny on doing this to (possible) best effect?

 

The lamp is a French oval with diagonal cuts and textured metal finish; it's super space-age awesomeness. It WAS glitter, and the previous owner refilled it with lava in red/violet from an el cheapo knockoff. It flows mostly in spheres but is extremely pretty nonetheless, and while I'm happy with it as it stands, I'd love to clear up the liquid.

 

Lamp is much hazier than it appears in the photo.

[kiramarie]

I am sure there are more qualified than me, but since i recently have pulled out of my garage attic after years of storage with temps getting well over 100s 8 months of the yr.  over 20 lamps that were all critically to pretty badly clouded /I can only tell you what worked with all of em with exception on one..I ran a strict schedule of 8 on 8 off.  Out of these most took a month a few a week or so longer   to clear..a few more stubborn I tried this.. I ran the lamps long enough to get it good and flowing for about 30 min. then I ever so gently rotated the bottle causing a swirl to happen inside* mini tornado and then put it back in lit base for other 30 min. turned off , let cool completely then did it a second time. After cooled complete once again I ran for 8 hours. I repeated this for 3 days. They to cleared.  Very Very careful not to emulsify lava in swirl..  As I said.. I am in learning phase of many things but this method did work for my lamps that came in a variety of bottle size and year it was manufactured, with only one Wizard refusing to clear.. not bad out of almost 20.  hope it helps

[Autumn]

http://oozinggoo.ning.com/page/cloudy

[Jonas Clark-Elliott]

Thanks a lot! Will try this. Has anyone ever tried to filter or cycle a cheap knockoff China, i.e. non-Lava?

[Aladdin 2 Lava]

Same as...got a green/orange Crestwoth three weeks ago that has'nt been run for years. It's as cloudy as yours, I'm gonna give it at least another couple of months before messing with it as the flow is fantastic, but no improvement on clarity so far. Good luck with yours :)

WaggS said:

I've been cycling a Crestworth bottle for 1 month now, and unfortunately there's no change yet.. well its very slightly clearer so i'm going to carry on 6 hrs on 6hrs off for another month.

[Aladdin 2 Lava]

It was on ebay, listed as 'Green lava lamp no base' The photo was a bit naff but I could see it was a Crestworth with copper cap and it was cloudy. I clicked on the starting price of £9.99 as I thought it would be worth it just for the bottle if the lava was shot. Could'nt belive my luck when I won it and was over the moon when it arrived and I got it fired up and flowing on my copper base.

WaggS said:

A Crestworth green/orange! FAB, where did you find such a gem?

Aladdin 2 Lava said:

Same as...got a green/orange Crestwoth three weeks ago that has'nt been run for years. It's as cloudy as yours, I'm gonna give it at least another couple of months before messing with it as the flow is fantastic, but no improvement on clarity so far. Good luck with yours :)

WaggS said:

I've been cycling a Crestworth bottle for 1 month now, and unfortunately there's no change yet.. well its very slightly clearer so i'm going to carry on 6 hrs on 6hrs off for another month.

[Aladdin 2 Lava]

Here you go Waggy.