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Comment by Woodvetch on December 31, 2015 at 2:54am

My clear experience is opaque when cold clear when hot. Made them in 2008. They have stayed clear when running all this time.
Before I turned him on to the major goo website, at that time, Louie was experimenting with clear and shared that special goo with me to experiment with as well.
The red and purple were both clear st first then settled into opaque forever. The neon green and blue both started clear, still are, but colors changed to a yellow that changes to clear greenish then bluish and back to clear yellow as it flows. Often I'll get multi colors in the flow.
Awesome stuff.

Comment by Andy Ross on December 31, 2015 at 1:28am

Yeah, thanks Brian, that's more or less what I've heard; it's all about whether it stays clear without running every day...

Sorry, Woodvetch, that you have problems with these beautiful globes - when you have a minute please would you -or Bohdan? - advise on this slightly-off-current-post issue? I'd love to emulate these clear/clears, if they stay clear!

And I hope you manage to top them off ok; I've got similar problems with an old favourite Lunar globe, and cannot get the wax running properly after topping up the old fluid, so I know how tricky it can be... though I'm emphatically not expert in any way...

Comment by Brian Ellis on December 30, 2015 at 5:28pm

I spoke with magma tower and they said he hasn't turned off his clear lamp for 3 months for experimental purposes and it will turn white. This is what I heard from a manufacturer. But he said he was testing the goo. So I hope this helps. I know that if it cools as normal it will turn opaque like when you get it as a solid until it heats again, then becomes clear again. It'll stay clear for a long long time if used for 8-10 hours a day. That's my input. If I'm wrong okay. The owner of the lamp could probably tell you more.

Comment by Andy Ross on December 30, 2015 at 4:20pm

congrats on these clear/clears, have admired these pix for ages.... I agree with Electric Astro a year ago - who needs colour with these elegant shapes?

my understanding was that these kits don't actually stay clear, they go back to solid/opaque when they cool, and are only clear at first, but please tell me i'm wrong and that they stay like this?

and also - if they do stay clear - is Magma Tower the best source?

Thanks! And Happy new year!

Comment by Bohdan on December 30, 2015 at 11:32am

Lava Louie made great kits back in the day. We now have same by Magma Tower and they are a member here and you can ask them questions. Over time formulas change and you may have to take liquid from one lamp to save the others and then just make that lamp into a new goo kit from Magma if so just save the remaining liquid you have to be used if needed down the road for your older grande lamps.

http://60slights.ning.com/profile/GooKits?xg_source=activity

Comment by Woodvetch on December 30, 2015 at 1:58am

Bohdan I need help.
I made my lamps years ago. No longer have my equipment or instructions.
Some of my homemade lamps were not sealed properly and evaporation happened when they were stored.
I moved, lamps now out again and flowing beautifully but several of the grandes need fluid to be topped off.
What are your suggestions for topping off and please provide fluid recipe as I no longer have.
Goo and fluid recipe was from Lava Louie himself well before he began selling kits.
Thanks for any help you can give. If it's a kit I need who is selling one you apprtove of?

Comment by Brian Ellis on December 29, 2015 at 4:37pm

I'm going to do one. I have 12 quarts of goo coming. I need to do a few lamps over. I buy old and beautify them fresh and magically tranquil to watch.

Comment by Bohdan on December 29, 2015 at 4:27pm

Yes there is something magic about the Clear on Clear lava lamps. When it comes to great looking works of art on the Grande lamps Woodvetch is a master with here photos.

Comment by Brian Ellis on December 29, 2015 at 3:06pm

Great lamp. I'm waiting for a few go kits. This is on my next built list. Clear is pretty cool, people don't expect to see this color lamp.

Comment by Patti on January 18, 2015 at 10:29am

So different looking with its black/white finish.

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