Anybody knows this globe?

[Innotic]

Hello, my mother bought me couple of lava globes because I'm in need of coil to fix another one. I'm a bit suprised, because under one of them i found "Cretworth Trading Ltd.". So it may be a bit old. Can You tell me something more about this globe? Maybe someone can recognize it's shape? Another weird thing - there's no coil after all. All I found is a piece of sieve plate lying on the bottom (featured on one of photos).

I'm thinking about transferring contents into chinese bottle (the only spare base I have) and make it work. Water is cloudy as hell, and goo looks a bit chunky. Give it a try?

[Marley's Ghost]

That's a great globe, looks a bit like my Telstar's globe.  It'd be great if you could find a base/cap to fit it, put a coil in and get that puppy flowing again!  Your Mama has excellent taste  ;-) 

[Innotic]

No way I can find the base of lamp to fit it in...
Crestworth/Mathmos lamps are very rare here in Poland, so I don't think I can sort this problem. They were available for short time, but prices... sky high (there's no official distributor).
About my globe - I've already opened it, now I'll make new liquid and drop in the coil from another lamp. I hope mathmos goo is still alive, because color is fabulous!

[Marley's Ghost]

I didn't notice you were in Poland, sorry about that.  I hope that wax is still good too, and it appears that it is,  it's gorgeous!!

[Innotic]

One thing what worries me is "flakes" in goo. Looks like it was cooked... Hope it wasn't!

[Marley's Ghost]

Flakes of "gunk" like rust or dirt, or flakes of something else?   Maybe you can filter it if it has gunk or something in it.  I hope so!

[Marley's Ghost]

I thought it looked like my Telstar, Lala, but I've never seen an Astrobaby in "person."  Or a pic of the globe by itself.

I want one....... ;-)
 
lalalava said:

astro baby and telstars are the exact same globe :)

Marley's Ghost said:

That's a great globe, looks a bit like my Telstar's globe.  It'd be great if you could find a base/cap to fit it, put a coil in and get that puppy flowing again!  Your Mama has excellent taste  ;-) 

[Innotic]

I think there's no hope :(

[Marley's Ghost]

Can you try melting the wax to see if it will all reincorporate back together?   I've had lamps with wax that looked like that and when completely molten, it all goes back together and flows fine.  That don't look like rust or any particles of weird dirt or anything from what I can see from the picture.

[Innotic]

I have to check it - all I've done was pouring out liquid, cleaning bottle, refilling with tap water and heated up. I'll see what happens :)

[Marley's Ghost]

Fingers crossed for you!   It would be a shame to lose that lovely Mathmos wax.

[Jonas Clark-Elliott]

Yeah, Mathmos tried those grids for a short time. I don't know why they thought it would work, but it didn't. The coil's purpose is to break the surface tension of blobs returning to the bottom, so that they rejoin the main mass, and that screen is difficult-to-reach and doesn't have enough height. I, too, have heard that putting in a coil fixes the issue. If that's what you want to do, reach in with a long, thin piece of metal wire while the lamp is hot and very, very slowly fish out the screen. Grab whatever cheap knock-off lamp you can and get the coil out, clean it, and pop it in there.

[Innotic]

Thanks for Your support folks!
I think there have to be about ten of these screens to make it work :)
I've dropped a coil from another globe my mother bought me and lamp begun to flow. Water catched some cloudiness, but goo seems to work nicely (but it's not looking so good). I will try to transfer it to my spare globe tomorrow, add some turquoise color to liquid and finally I'll have two decent lamps :D

EDIT: I've took a photo how's lamp going at the moment:
Sorry for poor photo quality.