Need advice for final tweek of liquid formula.

[Drew Shadow]

I’ve had this lava lamp since 1999 - long story short. Liquid was milk - black lava was light gray.

Over past month and dozens of concoctions and attempts using paraffin candle black dye chips - lava is blqck again. - drain and cleaned - distilled water a dash of vegetable glycerin, and a splash of propylene glycol.

I’ve even tried a dozen different lightbulbs and sorted them by recording the actual lumens and the thermal heat that they produced. I found that the GE appliance lightbulb 40 W 380 lm at 440° melted the wax without overheating it to be the best bulb.

But now all I get, is this gyrating one piece Cobra looking lava flow.

Anyone have any ideas of how I can make this lava flow a little bit better without having to redo my whole liquid chemical structure ?

[Drew Shadow]

Forgot to add pic

[The Lamp Caretaker]

If I were you I would have emptied the original liquid and kept the wax as is then refill using original lava lite liquid from a cheaper lamp purchased from ebay. When you mess with the wax you leach out chemicals that are already established in the wax. Most common issue with cloudy or none flowing lamps is that the lamp was left on too long and it boiled the liquid so it burns out like alight bulb hence the wax stops flowing.  It's the reason why lavalie manufacturer states not to leave on for more than 8 hours once it begins to flow.  Good luck.

[Drew Shadow]

Hey I appreciate your input..  but the wax was originally flowing fine. It was just the liquid was contaminated and I didn’t mess with the wax at all other than adding 1/ quarter” x 1/4” x 16th of an inch thick dye chip to enhance the black.  

I’m just having trouble tweaking the density of the liquid (Archimedes was a genius for sure). 
and actually my first attempt I went out to target and bought three other $25 lava lamps and use liquid out of that, but that was certainly the wrong density for the wax because when it heated up the wax just stayed up at the top and then my second attempt was to reduce the liquid density by dumping half of the fluid I dumped in and refill 50% with distilled water. That caused all the wax to stay at the bottom.   So then I started hey Google 50 cc of fluid and adding propylene glycol to increase the density.  About five times of doing that is where at least now I got the lava to flow. I just can’t get it to break apart.