Oozing Goo - The Lava Lamp Syndicate

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

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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. 

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.

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.

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.

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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.

I recommend the same as Tim

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.

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.. 

40w normal appliances, or the smaller sn11s?

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