My Grandes Needs a Coat?

[Deb]

Ok so I think I read in the past here somewhere that someone had to dress their Grandes in a coat/towel to get them going. My new ones flowed like champs first few runs and thereafter have frozen in solid spikes and will only flow correctly by wrapping them up each time beforehand. I know others here are having same issues. Without going back and reading pages of comments, can you gooheads tell me what you are doing to remedy? I will continue doing this if need be but shouldn't have to...js.  

[Marley's Ghost]

Debs, Ben's lamps did that, but he had dimmed them to simmer.   Mine just froze in place in a spike cause the room temp dropped.  Wrap them in towels, base and all till the wax melts completely, leaving about an inch or two of the top of the globe showing so you can tell when they flow without unwrapping the towels.   When they melt and flow, leave the towels on and turn them off, letting the wax fall back to the bottom flat.  Remove towels and leave the lamps alone for at least  24 hours.  

Then fire em up again, full blast, and they should flow again, as long as your house temps is at least 70 or higher.   My house temps cannot get below 70 degrees or this happens to both mine......DRAT. 

[Kirk]

Even my Giants won't flow properly when room temperature is much below 68.  My 52 oz and 32 oz lamps flow fine in the cooler winter temps, though.  And the glitters?  Well, they like it cool, and it seems to me they are the lamps for winter!  :>)

[Keith]

Well you could borrow Mark Goo's snuggie (or Jedi robe, if you prefer)

[Deb]

LOL @ Keith. I have a couple snuggies layin around somewhere. Thanks guys, I have been wrapping the lamps with towels ever since the first freeze up. Even now it still spikes and cools off at startup without covering and turned all the way up. Room temps average 72-74 degrees. I'm hoping it will no longer need a coat at some point after breaking in as Marley said. 

[Marley's Ghost]

EGAD, there's Mark in his snuggie and I'm sitting here watching Star Wars.......EEKKKK   He needs to be in it.

My Green Grande is still having a problem with the small coil not settling back into it's correct place, I have to do the "spin."  The Pink just did the flip with coils showing, but then always go back in place.   But that dratted white powder has started appearing.  I didn't ever do that before.    Don't panic, after an hour or so, it goes back clear.  

[Marley's Ghost]

I agree, Kirk.   I have no problems no matter the temp with any of my smaller lamps, but the Grandes have to have 70 or higher to flow.   Takes forever too.   Love the glitters, they are usually the ones I run all the time.   They love Winter. 
 
Kirk said:

Even my Giants won't flow properly when room temperature is much below 68.  My 52 oz and 32 oz lamps flow fine in the cooler winter temps, though.  And the glitters?  Well, they like it cool, and it seems to me they are the lamps for winter!  :>)

[Deb]

Yeah well I never had heat issues with any of my lamps until now. Except for the smaller ones overheating. My yellow Grande flows great no matter what. These new ones are quite odd.  Ran for two days straight and turned off. Instead of goo settling to the bottom in cools off in large columns. I may be forced to run for a month like Autumn did to break em in.  Has anyone gone to a larger bulb, foil etc. like with the smaller lamps? 

And yes I agree Miss Marley and Kirk. The pretty glitters are quite Christmasy  ;) 

[Marley's Ghost]

Debs, I've never had large lamps like this, and they are strange and unusual in being so temp sensitive over the least drop.   I run both my Heritage Grandes for days at a time, no dimming.   When I do turn them off, the Green settles back flat in the bottom of the globe, but on the last run of the Pink Grande, it settled back in a dome.   That didn't reassure me, since that's  exactly what the Heritage y/r Century does, which is now a red glitter.  

That's why I wrap the Pink Grande completely in a towel, and make sure that wax is good and hot, "then" turn it off while the towel is still on it.   When I do that, the wax will settle back flat in the bottom.  I have no idea why they even put dimmers on these Grandes.   They don't need them at all, and it only causes what you are seeing, as in getting cool and semi-hardening in columns, which sometimes happens anyway with any temp drop in the room.   Touchy they are.

[Deb]

Last run for 3 days was pretty good. Guess I'm gonna have to keep these babies wrapped up although don't think I should have to. Oh well... still pretty when all hot and fired up :)

[Marley's Ghost]

I haven't had mine on for days, Debs, too cold in the house.  I guess I'll have to get the little coats out again too!   I wish we didn't have to do that.....but they are pretty!