Twisted Coil

My lava lamp has a twisted coil in the bottom it now looks like a 8. Its effecting performance how can I return it to its O shape?

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Permalink Reply by Jim on December 2, 2011 at 6:11pm

Mike - the least intrusive thing you can try is to use a magnet to try to manipulate the coil with. Let the lamp heat up and then try to see if you can pull the coil up from the bottom of the bottle and then manipulate with a magnet or two.

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Permalink Reply by Mike on December 2, 2011 at 9:51pm

Hmmm the metal seems too thin, Im using a high powered magnet too. One from a hard disk. How did this even happen I have 3 lava lamps and I turned this one on and was like whaaaaa