Goo overdoo

Lamp is working again, no goo accrues to you ... crew. Tried the salt and dish soap trick with mixed results. Once I got the original cap off (gently) I was able to pull the original little cork gasket out but dropped a bunch of crumbs into the lamp. Added half a teaspoon off pickling salt and about five drops of dish soap. Used needle nose pilers to bend the cap back into shape and snapped it back on. I should have used a quarter teaspoon of salt cuz now have an antigrav lamp. Once up to heat, the blob resides in the top of the lamp. Pieces drool down and pinch off sinking to the bottom of the lamp, then rise under convection to displace the remaining blob upstairs. Neat part is when surface tension breaks down and the blobs merge; you can watch. It's like neighbors without drapes (kidding!). In a normally gravitated lamp that usually happen below the event horizon. The little chunks of cork floating around add a rustic element that I find appealing as well. Anyway, that's the update from sunny Guelph. If you have a lamp that just sits there, try three drops of dish soap (or straight glycerin) and A QUARTER teaspoon of pickling salt. You can add more later, but it hard to get back out!!!

Mitch

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