Astro gone wild...
I'm afraid I tinkered too much with this one: After heating up the wax builds lots of small bubbles, wandering around very slowly, without merging again.
The Lamp has enough surfactant and even a coil, but the blobs stay apart. When turning out the light it takes half an hour and the wax is combined in one block again :-)
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Comment by Pierre Brazeau on May 13, 2022 at 6:35pm
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Red Round Runaway.
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Comment by Claude J on September 22, 2017 at 5:09am
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Sounds likes lots of experimentation going on.
Density is certainly not the issue.
Surface tension is
It might be best to just change the fluid, Water bath super-heat the goo, and start over.??
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Comment by Peter Panussi on September 22, 2017 at 5:04am
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Well, I tried a dimmer, but the wax immediately reacts like on the picture, as soon as it's melted.
I think the wax somehow changed it's characteristics. It's an old lamp. When I purchased it, it was very cloudy, I changed the liquid several times, used different surfactants, dyed the wax (was very pale), and now the surface tension is gone mad - once melted it never merges again...
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Needs a dimmer
Looks overheated
Do not know about Mathmos temps, but LL should be @125 degree F
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Comment by Tribble on September 21, 2017 at 4:05pm
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Would a dimmer help? Mine does that if I leave it on all day, I know, bad practice on my part but sometimes I fall asleep watching the flow. lol
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And it's not about water density: Changing the concentration of propyleneglykol doesn't effect the bubbling and the very slow movement
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