Sleeping Giant Awakes

Drove out of state for my first USA Giant after looking for ages- someone’s old college lamp - dated May 1999 - just simmered and seethed like a witch’s cauldron for the first 3 weeks with no action. Thought it was toast since I was running it between 8-16 hours and nothing but the odd tiny bubble. Almost gave up but tonight the Giant sprung to life for the first time in years after almost 7 hours! Missing the cap so I sacrificed a silver Grande top and pained it black. Classic lava flow!

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Comment by Modulo '70 on December 13, 2017 at 8:36pm: All good things come to he that waits!

Comment by Michael on December 13, 2017 at 1:59pm: Gotta love that Giant flow! Looks like it was once a blue/yellow. Are you going to leave it as-is or re-dye the liquid?

Comment by CrunchyCanadian on December 10, 2017 at 3:58pm: Now that you mention it I did switch the bulb out and it was sitting next to the fireplace for the last week. Maybe it got frozen at some point sitting in a garage or something. The base was pretty dinged up too. The wax had a lunar crater look the time before it worked for the first time. Love the giant!

Comment by Keith on December 9, 2017 at 10:31pm: Beautiful Giant!!

Could there have been an ambient temperature issue keeping the lamp from flowing?

Comment by kero48 on December 9, 2017 at 7:47pm: Now, I would love to know how it really wasn't do much and then just started working right after 3 weeks? Cool though.