Wizard lava lamp doesn't flow correctly

[Cheylynn Marie Owen]

Okay I just recently got a wizard style lava lamp. It was badly shaken up and what lava did move you could barely see. So I decided yeah I can fix this. It took me four hours the first night to get it to move and over the next 2 days I added a little more dissolved salt to make it flow better. So now it flows okay but it doesn't break apart the way my other lamp does. Should I add more salt? The wax already looks watery when it flows now, I'm afraid too much more will ruin what I have done and I will have to start all over again

[Erin]

Generally, the last thing you want to do is pop open a lamp and tamper with it. Usually, several run cycles can fix many problems. 

[Tim Gill]

I would say not to add more salt for now but as I can't see the lamp I wouldn't know for sure so it may be a idea to show a picture of it flowing so I can give more advice.

[Cheylynn Marie Owen]

Trust me, the last thing I wanted to do was pop off the cap, but this lamp had potential. I will post a pick, but it takes at least 2 hours to start to flow, sometimes more.

[Gwen Williams]

Much can affect you flow starting and breaking number one on that list would be what temp the room is and if their is moving air around it.  I have one that take an hour and a half to flow and can take twice as long if I have a window open or a fan on.

[Cheylynn Marie Owen]

Here are the pics

[Tim Gill]

From looking at the pictures I would reccomend adding more salt as it dosent seam that the water is dense enough to get it to flow better.

[Da9L]

I recommend the same as Tim

[Cheylynn Marie Owen]

Okay thank you. I was looking at it last night after it ran for several hours and it did seem to flow a little faster but was still not making multiple blobs. So I think I will keep an eye on it for a few and add more salt if it doesn't improve anymore.

[kiramarie]

my experience with wizards is this... I have probably close to 20 of them... and often times a bottle that wont flow on a wizard base will flow wonderfully on a midnight base .. So I have some dimmer switches installed on some of my wizards as to give it a bit more heat.. and I have bent the light source to be close to bottle as possible..I use 40 watt bulbs in my wizards holding lava bottles.. 

[Stephanie]

40w normal appliances, or the smaller sn11s?