WWW.OOZINGLAVA.COM | The Fantastic Forum for Lava Lamps

A Place for Lava Lamp & Vintage Lights Fans All Over The World

Club Carramar

Information

A group dedicated to the Carramar Lighting company of Australia that produced The Rocket and Volcano Lava lamps

Location: Australia
Members: 17
Latest Activity: Nov 20, 2017

Club Carramar

Welcome to Club Carramar

Carramar Lighting was an Australian company based in Mt Gambier in South Australia that produced Lava lamps, Fibre Optic lamps and Touch lamps.

Carramar is famous for producing the Volcano Lava lamps.

Their Lava lamps were made with high quality heavy chromed bases and came in various wax colours that produced a great flow.

What was really unique about these Lava lamps was that the globe was indented in the base to house the light bulb within the bottle from the lamp base. The bottom of the lamp base was open and created a bright ring of light wherever the lamp was placed.

Sadly, Carramar went into liquidation, not much is known about this company and it appears its history has gone untold.

I would like to dedicate this page to the only Australian lava lamp company.

If you own a Carramar Lava lamp your pictures and thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Discussion Forum

Carramar lava lamps 55 Replies

Hi team. My name is John & I've purchased a few lava lamps online & picked up a blue volcano lamp. I thought it looked cool & like the previous owner I originally had no idea what it was.…Continue

Started by John. Last reply by John Nov 20, 2017.

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of Club Carramar to add comments!

Comment by Joel on October 24, 2016 at 5:06am

Comment by Joel on October 23, 2016 at 6:54am

Comment by Joel on October 23, 2016 at 6:53am

Comment by Joel on October 23, 2016 at 6:51am

Comment by ElectricAstro on April 22, 2016 at 9:23am: I wish they still made these. So sad that Carramar is no longer around.

Comment by Mark on April 20, 2016 at 12:46am: Definitely my favorite lava lamp now.

More interesting than the common mathmos shape, and extremely well made.

Comment by ElectricAstro on April 18, 2016 at 3:58pm: I love these Carramar lamps! One day I will own one :)

Comment by Mark on April 17, 2016 at 6:05am: I'm sure most people are aware that the original style 30W bulbs are still available from PJ White and Co: https://www.pjwhite.com.au/ProductDisplay.aspx?Product=02558

However, I found a couple of alternatives.

For those people who have 25W lamps, you can use a 25W E27 ES 240v pgymgy bulb. I bought one here: http://www.meteorelectrical.com/lighting-lamps/lamps-and-tubes/25w-...

This bulb was just a couple of millimeters too long, so improvised with a skinny elastic hairband around the base of the bottle:

I also found a 40W E27 ES 240v pgymgy bulb, and managed to buy a couple of boxes of 10 via ebay (not yet able been able to find anymore though unfortunately):

I use these with a dimmer plug like this:

Comment by Mark on April 17, 2016 at 5:35am: Recently purchased a red Volcano via ebay Australia (I'm in the UK) and hadn't really appreciated how difficult the bulbs were to get hold of.

Here's my lamp: