Make sure you wash down the inner sides of the lamp and then swish the liquid around the solid wax. Be careful not to break up the wax by shaking the lamp too much.
Refill the bottle with fresh and clean water. Use filtered or distilled water for the best effect. Turn the lamp back on for 2 to 6 hours to heat it up again. Add drops of clear liquid dish soap once the lamp has warmed up. The soap is to help promote a proper separation between the liquid and the wax. Then, use a straw or a pipette to slowly add the solution to the lava lamp.
Do this until the wax starts flowing normally through the lamp. Put the lid back on. Use glue if you have to. Did you enjoy the content? How to Fix a Touch Lamp? Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. This may cause permanent damage, such as the lamp becoming cloudy or the lava breaking apart. If this happens, turn the lamp off immediately and let it sit undisturbed for 24 hours, then turn it back on and run as normal. Do not place the lamp in direct sunlight, as this will cause the colors to fade.
Model Name OZ. Important information The portable lamp has a polarized plug one plug is wider than the other. Constant Contact Use. Please leave this field blank. A boil is simply removing the liquid from the lamp and heating up the wax to higher than normal temperatures. Believe it or not they eventually clear up and after a run or two the emulsion formed by the lamp being shaken up precipitates out of the master fluid and settles on the bottom.
When the lamp is turned on the chemicals that separated from the wax are reabsorbed into the wax. Unfortunately they do not form a proper mixture with the wax at normal operating temperatures. This results in a handful of problems.
Wax can look chunky, fill with bubbles, and only flow in a single column like pictured below. I don't know if I would recommend this process due to the fact that lamps from this time period use perchloroethylene to make the wax more dense.
Boiling the wax will cause the perchloroethylene to volatilize and leave the wax formula. This may make the lamp stop flowing normally. You also will be breathing in perchloroethylene. Proceed with your own risk and wear a respirator rated for organic solvents like a 3M To begin while the lamp is cool pour the liquid into another clean container, but make sure to leave a small amount of fluid so the wax does not stick to the globe.
Only an oz or two should be left. You can store the liquid in mason jars that are either new or have been cleaned out with acetone and then distilled water and left to air dry. Put a small plate at the bottom of a pan to prevent the globe from cracking due to the extreme heat of the bottom of the pan. Some people do and I have seen posts on here where they cracked their globe because they didn't listen to this warning. Fill the pan up so the water level is equal to the wax level in the globe.
Bring the liquid to a full boil until all of the wax is melted. Let the lamp heat up for an additional 10 minutes. Let the lamp cool off completely then re-pour the fluid back into the lamp. Note the weird tail on the top right blob and the strange almost Chinese formula like round blobs. That is likely due to the reduced amount of perchloroethylene. It did fix the column flow, but it introduced a new kind of flow issue. But a cloudy lava lamp is a waste of space, completely useless, so it's got to be worth a try.
Here's a quite nasty looking red Jet lava lamp as a comparison. Very cloudy this one and completely useless as it was. The fresh water and adding washing up liquid all went without incident. As I added the salt solution it started getting very weird and bubbly. I'm not convinced that this is totally my fault. When it was cloudy I'm sure what you could see of the wax was very much like this so it's probably down to it being shaken or dropped at some time.
And here's a picture of the other three together. The red one, as seen above, is a bit crazy and has clouded a bit from all the small bits of wax floating around. The orange AstroBaby is fabulous but has bubbles in the wax - cool effect though.
So it does look like some might cloud up again over time. Some people have suggested using distilled water rather than just tap water for better results - might be worth a try. There you go, two complete successes and two "not bads" out of the four.
I hope that's been helpful and remember that none of this is my fault - good luck! If you have a different experience or want to share then please drop me a line to robin moltenmeditation.
Tried some food colouring - works like an absolute treat - you only need literally two drops; I overdid it a bit but it looks fantastic anyway :. Nice clear water! Leave the lid off. Leave the lamp on.
Get a flat bottomed glass and half fill it with water. So let's grab our salt solution and give it a go. This takes time, lots of time. Here's mine, cloud free, working like a treat! Looked like the wax was pretty messed up. Until it was all a bit out of control. Still looks pretty funky though. Tried some food colouring - works like an absolute treat - you only need literally two drops; I overdid it a bit but it looks fantastic anyway : Can you guess which one?
It's the one on the left!
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