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Filtering my 50th Grande!

Got me a MSR filter and attempted a filtering of my super cloudy 50th! Only thing is I don't know how I lost so much water! I could have sworn I didn't spill that much! Maybe after running it, the perc bubbles let out some water!

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Permalink Reply by VOXul on February 20, 2017 at 9:52pm

Nice filter results! I strained out an old glitter grande and ended up with a lower water level when done too, seems it vanished into thin air! Liquid level will rise once it gets hot, hopefully it will rise up under your top cap.

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Permalink Reply by Emil D. Nguyen on February 20, 2017 at 10:20pm

Yep exactly! I'm heating it up now with the rubber stopper slightly open to let out some pressure. Depending on the flow I will prepare my distilled water accordingly with or without a little epson salt. This lamp was originally about 1" below metal top cap full. So I'm missing roughly 2".

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Permalink Reply by Emil D. Nguyen on February 21, 2017 at 3:12am

Bummer! I have wax going up the sides. Strange thing is that I didn't have this issue before...

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Permalink Reply by Emil D. Nguyen on February 26, 2017 at 8:43pm

Yay, completely emptied the globe, gave a good scrubbing and carefully put it back together! Lesson learned: Replace lost fluid before firing lamp up again, not doing so probably changed the perc ratio in the fluid.