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number 4 is about the only stage my lava lamp has ever reached

Hi there! I was searching for lava lamp recipes that don’t require tetrachloroethylene, because I’m a bit worried about the toxicity (especially when experimenting in a kitchen where I also cook food). I couldn’t find many alternative recipes, but this seems to be one! I was wondering, did you use anything to color the dimethicone? And is the liquid just water + surfactant? Thanks a lot!

I had a 4mm thick disc of borosilicate glass cut for mine. The glass disc goes in first before the bottle, and sits on top of the metal support ring. Then the bottle goes in on top of the glass disc, so I've effectively got a transparent hotplate instead of direct candle heat. This allows me to use the official mathmos candles without overheating for a steadier operation. However the "official" candles are simply a tea light with a thicker wick like a normal candle, so I just buy cheap tea lights and replace the wicks with thicker wick I bought in Amazon for a few quid. The tea lights come with holes in the wax centres, and the wick simply pulls out through the middle for easy replacing before first burn.

When wax mix heated for temperature that make him transparent liquid is not bad for wax? I mean in lamp wax is smoky and hazy but when you melt him on oven - its more heat temperature

19:00 yeah no idea what the brownish red stuff is, anyway look how rusty the spring was😂🤡

What about reesembly, do you have to glue the top again ? Or is it good enough to just screw it on tight ?

Спасибо за информацию, я так и не понял почему моя лампа не обладает такой текучестью, кажется неисправна пружинка

The wax reminds me of an Apple for some reason

I just realized I messed up the order of the cups compared to the explanatory drawing in the top left. The order on the fabric should be correct though, at least I remember with certainty that the dark yellow cup actually is the 6-months-old one.

Noone offers stronger incandescent bulbs anymore

I appreciate all the effort you put into this how to video. Honestly, I have no idea what you did with panty hose and coffee filters and all the rest. Today, I emptied out the cloudy water from my lava lamp. I used boiled water (distilled water) and I poured it back in. It is like brand new again and it took under 5 minutes. Not a flex, I swear.

Lol imma just buy a new one at this point

I got my dad a new lava lamp 3 years ago, but he hadn't used it for the last several months. I decided to try to get it working again. The bulb that came with it sent heat out in all directions, so it made the base very hot, but didn't seem to melt the wax enough to make it move upwards. Also, there was some wax stuck at the top. I bought a bulb of the same wattage/voltage, but designed so the heat transfers upward only, instead of putting heat out all directions. It worked well for getting things moving and the base didn't feel as hot as before, however I still have some wax stuck to the top. The top doesn't get warm enough. I think I need to try a higher wattage bulb than what it says to use. The room temperature is between 68 and 70 F. I tried letting it warm and then letting it cool upside down to mix with what had melted. Big mistake. Now almost all of the wax is stuck to the top above any liquid, and the coil is stuck up there in the wax. I tried letting it run for a couple of hours hoping it might start to soften and mix in with liquid by turning it sideways. I also tried letting it sit in warm water with no luck. I have heard of using a blow dryer on it and may try that next.

Best lava lamp trouble shooting video yet, thanks I haven't unplugged my lava lamp in one year but I have changed the blub so I have some experimenting to do.

Fever dream

I have 2 that i haven't used in a couple of years and they are experiencing some problems where the stuff is stuck @ the top of one and the other one the stuff is stuck @ the top and bottom. Please can U help fix these problems am having?

Very nice, just what I searched for exactly 😊

just put the bottle in a bucket of hot water for 10 minutes

And what to do when i dont like the color? My sister has a blue water with yellow lava and i find it ugly😂 but she wont use it anyway so can i change the water to like normal water color? Like seethru or ?

Great tip, thank you!

I was on the edge of my seat the entire video lol. Good job taking the extra step to experiment with the ink! Might not have been successful but hey you gave it a go!

I have a box just like that, bought in Hungary.

very well balanced!

😂😂😂😂

The debris is rust from the coil

wow. best lava lamp diy fix vid on YT. Thanks!

Very nicely done, cheers 🍻

my light doesn’t turn on

1% WOW. Thank you Dharma for providing such a powerful dye! I needed pastels for a recent order and wanted a reliable formula. This changed my life. Thank you. I have been also switching and mixing and it's been so difficult to get what I want. Now I know.

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the ending.... ouch

This was an awesome vid. You are a Renaissance man.❤

In the end he tells you what you SHOULD do and demonstrates what NOT to do. So it's still educational, I guess.

Admiro a las personas que se plantean un reto como este y son tan meticulosos como para llevarlo a cabo con tanta precisión. Sinceramente mi más sincera enhorabuena. Ahora disfrutas la lámpara de dos formas distintas. Por lo que es y por lo que has hecho por ella. Ya no están esas manchitas odiosas :D

This was so helpful, very impressed. Thank you!!!

I tried the same steps as you did but it didnt work out for me. When the wax heated up it stays at the top , so i had to put my old water back in the bottle . What could be the reason .

Lovely.

How's your lava lamp formula now have you gotten the entire process figured out?

Okay, what if, I have the correct voltage and wattage, (in my case, for a 14.5" lamp, 120v, 25w), another globe works fine on the lamp, but the one I'm having trouble with, when I turn the lamp on, the wax melts, but it never erupts from the main block? It just melts entirely, but stays grounded. This globe USED to flow, though.

Ah. Zum Schluss ist das Wachs dann so heiß 🔥 geworden, dass es auch ohne Docht gebrannt hat. Das wird dann wild😮

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​ @Makstuff bro i really want to buy Mathmos lavalamp its too costly to import by third party company, like $300+. So i really want to make my one .. and UA-cam is full of crap ( vegetable oil sh1t lamp ), you are the one in whole UA-cam who is doing The REAL thing, mark my word "how to make" video will blow up your channel. Good luck for me brother, You are doing god's work 🫡

It was surprisingly emotional watch a man spend hours, even days laboriously fixing a lava lamp before completely ruining it.

Very helpful

I have a lava lamp I've had since I was a kid, it worked for years and ran near constantly, but then after I moved out of my parents it sat around off for years upon years in a basement. I found it when they moved and plugged it in and it worked just as it always had, decided to bring it to my boyfriends because his son wanted it in his room, I had no choice but to lay it on it's side during transport because I had no one to hold it at the time and didn't want the glass to break if it tipped over. It was completely cooled when I did this, the wax was still hot when I moved it (15 min trip) because I thought letting it move would be better, or was I was wrong on that? It worked at first when I brought it over but now the wax never bubbles and moves and just sits at the bottom. We replaced the old bulb with a new one of the correct volts and wattage, so im confused what happened to it? If anyone could help me with a reply that would be awesome. Thinking maybe it's just finally cooked and we'll have to get him his own. It's a shame, this is a nice metal and glass one from the 80's/90's tho. Don't want to get rid of it. 😢

Thank you

was sitting here wondering about soldering the ends of my spring back together, and now i may just take it out and leave it

I get so annoyed by these videos.... DO NONE OF YOU OWN AN OVEN?... seriously, just put the glass element in the oven @ between 80-100 Degrees Celcius for approximatly 40 minutes... then that will fix your issue by melting all the wax. Running the lamp will not work because the entire principle of the effect is to run in a heat engine that has a temperature difference. The top of your Lava Lamp will always be colder than the bottom, hence why the wax at the top solidifies and stops moving... especially with low wattage bulbs which is all the rage these days. The old lava lamps that ran on a 60W bulb did not have as many issues as the 15- 20W bulbs you find in present days.

i have two 2nd hand mathmos lamps and they are very clear and work great.