Neon yellow cooked?

[Ben]

This is my neon yellow lamp I've had for a few months. The flow was very close to pre-China flow until now. Lately it's been acting lazy and spitting out small watery bubbles like this. It's exactly what my purple/yellow Colossus is doing! Any ideas?

[Ben]

My neon green has been on a timer at work for 10 hours a day, 5 days a week for months with a 60w bulb on a timer. No issues at all. The yellow has been just as good until the recent intermittant watery bubbly flow.

[Metallica Man Trevor]

My yellow is from before the recall. And it's still the best one. The others are from after

Brad said:

did you get the neons when they first came out?  i'm wondering if the wax is part of a bad batch.  i remember LL pulling neons for a bit and replacing them.  my yellow neon came after this replacement and i don't have any problems with it.  it's on my desk at work on a timer.

[Aladdin 2 Lava]

The new coils did the trick, If I hadn't found them I'm sure Jus's method would have worked.

 

Aladdin 2 Lava said:

It didn't work.  :( 

However I remembered I have two brand new coils from replacement bottles ordered last year that had the 'first batch' awful (new style bottle) glass, so I used the contents to refill a pair of Crestworths that were spent.

I'm waiting for the 'dust' to settle before running them.
 
Aladdin 2 Lava said:

I have two globes that started to do this, I've warmed them up and hooked the coils out and dropped them in pan of boiling water and washing up liquid for a few minutes. The coils are back in the globes. I'm leaving them to cool down till the hundreds of wax particles caused when I foolishly shook the coils in the liquid to remove the wax still in them has settled.

[Erin]

Oooooh, awesome! Well done! 

[Phishy Lava]

Ben,
I had this exact same problem with my neon yellow. Flowed great at first, and then it started doing the cone thing. I put it on a timer for 10 hours a day 7 days a week using a 60 watt bulb dimmed to about 80% and CAREFULLY did the spin trick a few times........after about 2 weeks like that I switched back to the 40 watt bulb, still on the timer.....been flowing PERFECTLY for about 2 months now.
Don't give up hope!

[Ben]

Actually, it seems to have fixed itself. I'm wondering if was just a goofy temperature gradient issue or something. Who knows.