Chaos Magnet

Do-it-yourself Lava Lamps

I love Lava Lamps. (Please forgive me, oh Lava Lamp gods, for I know you are a trademark, but do not know the proper way to cite you. [UPDATE: The proper citation is "LAVA LITE lamp", but that's just too awkward to say, I'm sorry.]) I am also incurably meddlesome. Translation: I love to shake it up and watch the little tiny bubbles of wax re-coalesce. Unfortunately, when you do that to Lava Lamp and [or to a LAVA LITE lamp, for that matter] , you get more than just little bubbles of wax. You get very, very cloudy solution. Especially if, like me, you have a tiny little fake lava lamp-type thing, which is constantly toppling to the floor. So in my search to find out how to clear the water, I found the Oozing Goo Lava Line and its thread on fixing a cloudy LAVA LITE lamp. The cool part, however, is about halfway down the page, where someone explains how to replace the water in one of these things. Very cool, especially since it means you can make your own colors with a little food coloring.

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