This is my first "real" video where I didn't include any music. I'm always conflicted about music, on the one hand I feel it makes the video feel a bit more "lively", but on the other hand it can easily get annoying. If you have any thoughts/preferences on this, I'd love to hear them.
I just want to genuinely Thank you for making such great help videos that are Lava lamp focused. I myself am a huge lava lamp fanatic and an enthusiast but keep having issues with my lamp. Your videos are extremely helpful and legendary! Thank You very very much kind sir!
Hey mang, wanted to let you know all you need to do is 'save' the original fluid in a separate (for the love of god make sure it's clean) clean container while the lamp is off and cool. Make up your water soapy concoction and dump it in the now empty lamp. Turn on lamp... you might get lucky and get some bubbles, however, this doesn't matter. Do exactly what you did in the video - play with the stuck wax with a dropper and some soap... once happy, let it all cool thoroughly - like at least 10 hours (and don't speed it up, for the love of god). Rinse with clean water and then add back your original solution slowly (for jostling water could cause it to become cloudy). Thanks for your content, mang. Lava lamping is a dying art with all the restrictions on chems in wax.
Oh I forgot to put the overall reason 'why' you'd do this... After a year the soap will shed impurities into the water which will cloud it - also, after the soap breaks down it might get stuck in coil thus rendering some sort of gross mold/slime stuff i don't know it's just really gross though and your wax is gonna need cleaning... which I did watch the channel's vid on doing that, very nice
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.
This is my first "real" video where I didn't include any music. I'm always conflicted about music, on the one hand I feel it makes the video feel a bit more "lively", but on the other hand it can easily get annoying. If you have any thoughts/preferences on this, I'd love to hear them.
I just want to genuinely Thank you for making such great help videos that are Lava lamp focused. I myself am a huge lava lamp fanatic and an enthusiast but keep having issues with my lamp. Your videos are extremely helpful and legendary! Thank You very very much kind sir!
i relate to "i probably should have tried that first" so much 😅
also, i think the columnar flow is kind of cooler than the juggling spheres.
Hey mang, wanted to let you know all you need to do is 'save' the original fluid in a separate (for the love of god make sure it's clean) clean container while the lamp is off and cool. Make up your water soapy concoction and dump it in the now empty lamp. Turn on lamp... you might get lucky and get some bubbles, however, this doesn't matter. Do exactly what you did in the video - play with the stuck wax with a dropper and some soap... once happy, let it all cool thoroughly - like at least 10 hours (and don't speed it up, for the love of god). Rinse with clean water and then add back your original solution slowly (for jostling water could cause it to become cloudy). Thanks for your content, mang. Lava lamping is a dying art with all the restrictions on chems in wax.
Oh I forgot to put the overall reason 'why' you'd do this... After a year the soap will shed impurities into the water which will cloud it - also, after the soap breaks down it might get stuck in coil thus rendering some sort of gross mold/slime stuff i don't know it's just really gross though and your wax is gonna need cleaning... which I did watch the channel's vid on doing that, very nice
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.