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Need advice for final tweek of liquid formula.
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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…Continue

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Drew Shadow replied to Drew Shadow's discussion Need advice for final tweek of liquid formula.
"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…"
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The Lamp Caretaker replied to Drew Shadow's discussion Need advice for final tweek of liquid formula.
"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…"
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Drew Shadow replied to Drew Shadow's discussion Need advice for final tweek of liquid formula.
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Need advice for final tweek of liquid formula.

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…See More
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Something Interesting About Me:
Hold a couple patents in automotive safety systems
Where I Live:
USA
My First Lava Lamp was:
Circa 1975 brother hand me down
My Collection Includes this many Lava Lamps:
3
My Favorite Lava Lamp is:
My harley oil can lamp
Reason for joining OozingGoo:
Fixed a few things on my own that I’d like to share and need help with the final piece of my puzzle

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