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The best thing to use for glitter is the mylar type metallic gift wrap.
This is sometimes marketed as metallic tissue. It is a metallic thin plastic sheet that comes in many guages and coloures including silver and holographic patterns.
Simply cut it into small pieces or use a hole punch to create circular flakes. There are as many densities of this product as there are brands, so a bit of tinkering is needed to find a suitabe liquid to make the lamp work properly.
If your mylar glitter floats in water then try using mineral oil or other types of oil. If your mylar sinks in your oil try adding a little perc to the oil to make the oil more dense and quicker to convect. Try to get the density so as the gitter stays suspended in the liquid when cold. Remember that when the liquid is heated it will expand and become less dense and therefore less likely to suspend your glitter. There is nothing more anoying than geting your glitter lamp to work beautifuly only to find that after an hour it all gets stuck in the bottom of your bottle.
If your plastic glitter flakes sink in water then try mixtures of water with glycerin, glycol and or saline. while adding salt will make your glitter more likely to float and cycle, adding glycol will have the same effect but will make the convection currents wider by thickening the liquid a little. Crestworth used to use propylene glycol in their slow glitter lamps. A good source of propylene glycol ready mixed with glycerin is found in smoke machine fluid. Try Jem/Martin fog fluid. This stuff is also good for refilling Lava lamps when mixed with the right amount of distilled water. Hope this post helps
Do you know if it is pure propylene glycol, or mixed with water and other stuff?
Because I've got a Crestworth Cosmos missing one milimiter liquid, so do you think I can add propylene glycol in it without ruining it? (Actually I can only see the liquid missing if I'm level with the lamp, so it is not really an issue, but if I can fix it, why not :-) )
Thanks
Christian Fletcher said:
Crestworth used to use propylene glycol in their slow glitter lamps.
Do you know if it is pure propylene glycol, or mixed with water and other stuff?
Because I've got a Crestworth Cosmos missing one milimiter liquid, so do you think I can add propylene glycol in it without ruining it? (Actually I can only see the liquid missing if I'm level with the lamp, so it is not really an issue, but if I can fix it, why not :-) )
Thanks
Christian Fletcher said:Crestworth used to use propylene glycol in their slow glitter lamps.
Thank you, but I already took the risk and done it with propylene glycol :-)
No problem for glitterlite and glitterbaby, it works perfectly.
Today I cut few bits from a survival blanket (you know the one with one face gold, other face silver) and throw them in some liquid I had left from a Mathmos Glitter bottle.
It worked!
This blanket is made from polyester (13 microns thick).
So I need to find a way to cut regular size flakes from it and I'll do a full test.
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