Night of the Hunter

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This is a group for those who have an interest in the so-called Hunter lava lamps named after their founder, Mr John Edward Hunter who attempted a patent on his Sata-Lite model in c. 1970. Later version was called the Sparkle-Lite using glittery strands in the liquid. They came in various designs but more or less one size and with only one bottle type but numerous colour combos in both wax and sparkly strands to glitter.

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Any experience with removing dents from copper hunter lamp? 3 Replies

I have just bought a copper hunter lamp (Crestworth?)It has some serious dents and I probably have to re-wire but i really liked the Floating Fibres in this one.I did not pay much for it and i Hope I…Continue

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Started by Gijzzz. Last reply by Modulo '70 Jul 10, 2018.

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Comment by Modulo '70 on August 30, 2020 at 5:51pm: Yes this Sata-Lite intrigued both my friend Paul ‘Flock’ and me when we watched this episode of G&M a few years back. We couldn’t quite make out what was going on with the lamp behind Mildred as it looked somewhat distorted. I’m not wholly convinced the cap and bottle are standard issues.

Comment by njjeff201 on March 2, 2020 at 3:15pm: Their lamp is foggy like mine!!!

Comment by Eliot on March 2, 2020 at 6:57am: I can't believe I've not noticed this before, check it out!

Seen in another episode of George and Mildred. https://youtu.be/xa6QdLTgHGY

At first I thought it was just the camera angle, but it would appear not. The bottle is much more tapered than usual, with a taller and slimmer cap!

Comment by Modulo '70 on July 29, 2018 at 3:08am: Rarely seen if somewhat Tatty box to the 'Hunter' Sparkle Lite (I normally hyphenate the Sparkle and the Lite as in Sata-Lite.)

Comment by Modulo '70 on July 29, 2018 at 3:05am

Comment by Eliot on July 29, 2018 at 12:48am: Johnny, that's brilliant! Thank you!

Comment by Johnny on July 28, 2018 at 4:31pm: after hunting through my box files of lava stuff found 2 patents for John Edward Hunter lamps

patent no.1368241 is mainly the contents for the lava lamp

patent no.136842 is the construction of base etc

links to patent site below

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument...

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument...

Comment by Eliot on July 27, 2018 at 2:56am: Indeed. The only thing I've uncovered so far as that the registered design number dates to June 1970.

Comment by Modulo '70 on July 27, 2018 at 2:29am: That's cool Catalina. A very good site.

Comment by CatalinaThePirate on July 22, 2018 at 11:36pm: Hi, dunno if you already have this but I just did a short search and found this:

http://www.imovatedesign.co.uk/astro/hunterlamps.html

Hope this helps! :)