AARRGH--I might have ruined my favorite kitted lamp!

[Chris]

So over the last few days I have been slowly adding some yellow dye to my favorite lamp. When I originally kitted it I used the green die only but was getting bored with its color and wanted to pep it up a bit. 

Today I decided I had finally added enough yellow. I was tightening the cap back on to the globe, and my screwdriver slipped (I use a hose clamp to tighten the caps back on) and jostled the lamp pretty hard while it was hot. I got a pretty big amount of small wax pieces floating in the water--it seems that the impact shook up all the stuff that was in the top of the lamp--probably the cap and some other smaller blobs.

There were still two pretty large blobs at the bottom of the lamp, and I have had it cooling off for the last few hours so I could try running it again to get it back to normal. Does this thing have any chance? Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the damage, so I can't show anything. It looks like everything settled mostly underneath the larger blobs of wax, so I am hoping they just melt back in.

UGH!!! I really hope I don't have to re-do this goo kit.

[Keith]

Wow!  I love that color!

Each time you cycle it, more of the bits of wax should recombine with the main wax.  It's such a great color and looks like great flow too, I personally just wouldn't mess with it unless I really had to.

Chris said:

So here's where I am about 3 hours into a cycle. The flow is fine after my mishap, but the picture doesn't show all the debris floating around in the water. I can't really see it unless I look really closely. Trying to decide if it's worth messing with or not. I'm finally happy with the actual lava color.

[Chris]

It's a mixture of the stock yellow and green dyes I got in the goo kit. It's a little darker than that in real life, but still has that lime green look to it. I have it on a dimmer at about 75% heat. Flows really nice and always has.

I'm going to run it for a few days--the water just looks "dusty" when you look at it up close. I'm not confident the particles in the water are ever going to recombine, but I'm going to give it time. I'm kind of tired of opening up lamps right now and would much rather sit and look at them.

Keith said:

Wow!  I love that color!

Each time you cycle it, more of the bits of wax should recombine with the main wax.  It's such a great color and looks like great flow too, I personally just wouldn't mess with it unless I really had to.

Chris said:

So here's where I am about 3 hours into a cycle. The flow is fine after my mishap, but the picture doesn't show all the debris floating around in the water. I can't really see it unless I look really closely. Trying to decide if it's worth messing with or not. I'm finally happy with the actual lava color.

[Chris]

Yeah--so last night I gave into my impatience and put in new distilled water and surf. So far so good. No more cloudiness and the goo is flowing like nothing ever happened. Phew!

[Carol]

My dog knocked my pink 52 oz kit across the room onto the treadmill while it was running!!!  It looked like glitter that's how tiny all the bubbles were.  After 24 hours of cooling down, you couldn't tell anything happened.  I was pleasantly surprised.  I have a green like that Chris.  I used the same 2 dyes.  That's funny!!!

[Chris]

You know what's even funnier? I got the color combination idea from something YOU posted!! :)

Carol said:

My dog knocked my pink 52 oz kit across the room onto the treadmill while it was running!!!  It looked like glitter that's how tiny all the bubbles were.  After 24 hours of cooling down, you couldn't tell anything happened.  I was pleasantly surprised.  I have a green like that Chris.  I used the same 2 dyes.  That's funny!!!

[Carol]

lolololololololl!!!  I was like hey, I have that same color combo!!! hee hee hee

[Chris]

I feel like the yellow kind of "electrifies" the green, but a really great side effect of mixing in more dye was that it got rid of the transparency that MT goo seems to have sometimes.

Carol said:

lolololololololl!!!  I was like hey, I have that same color combo!!! hee hee hee

[Carol]

I tried just plain green but i didn't like the "forrest" look it had to it.  If you go light with the plain green, then it looks like a washed out spearmint.  I wanted more of what the LL Neon green looked like when brand new.  Only that green turns weird after a while.  My mt goo dye green is holding it's color nicely.  I do cover it in the day though with a pillowcase because i get a room flooded with sunlight.  Nice for me.  Not so nice for colored lava.

[Chris]

That was exactly why I added in the yellow--I got bored with the forest green look after a while as well, and wanted it to look like the lime green I had back in the day.

Carol said:

I tried just plain green but i didn't like the "forrest" look it had to it.  If you go light with the plain green, then it looks like a washed out spearmint.  I wanted more of what the LL Neon green looked like when brand new.  Only that green turns weird after a while.  My mt goo dye green is holding it's color nicely.  I do cover it in the day though with a pillowcase because i get a room flooded with sunlight.  Nice for me.  Not so nice for colored lava.