Does anyone here have a lava lamp? I have one ( Mathmos) and the cap to bottle and the base to bottle appear to have been glued together at some point but the "glue" has now hardened and failed so it's a bit unstable . You need to be able to gain access to the bulb to change it so it can't be glued permanently and I was wondering if anyone has encountered this sort of problem . Stuart
Bought one for No.1 Daughter at Christmas. No glue... Your's has been got at. The bottle doesn't fit all that well to the base but is stable enough.
Bead of silicone, let it cure before reassembly?
Adam
Had several over the years & Son bought one a few years back base a separate from the bottle which just lifts out they have always been like this
Tony
Aah..so probably a previous owner ( it came via Freecycle) has thought the same as me and considered it a bit dodgy and has glued it together .Oh well, silicone between base and base cover it is then and that'll still let me change the bulb if necessary . Between bottle and base I'll need to think about ...
Lava lamps sometimes considered dangeous and often recommended not to leave them on when absent or asleep!
I just use it occasionally anyway and never when I go out .Apprently according to a Forum I visited you shouldn't have them on for more than about 5 hours unless you are using a dimmer.
Might be worth getting high temperature silicone(*) and using the cling film trick to get the silicone the right thickness.
(*) Not sure how hot the bottom of a lava lamp gets but it'll be a lot hotter than normal environmental temperatures or really sure what temperature ordinary silicone can take for extended periods of time.
They do get pretty hot as there is little airflow in that area . The lamp sits immediately below the base of the globe
Instant gasket or similar, silicone will take fairly extreme temperatures.
Adam
Off original post, but suggest that you stock up on the appropriate tungsten lamps when you fix it, as I don't think it will perform with a compact fluorescent...
Bramble-stick
In message , Dave Liquorice writes
high modulus silicone from a CH merchant
or Hermatite gasket compound
might be worth trying
No.It needs heat to work and it takes a golfball lamp
Not suitable for anywhere they can knock it over or touch.
Daughter is 12 and I detest thinks in "vulnerable" locations. They *will* get knocked over (to prove the point) if they remain in such a place after they have been asked to be moved.
As for hot. The "don't touch, hot" lesson was learnt the hard way, and in IMHO the only way, on things that hurt but don't actually produce a burn at a very young age.
Problem when all incandescent bulbs are banned in a few years .. Simon.
I've got one, but it never did have any glue. The three parts: base, bottle, cap, just sit on to of each other.
-- JJ
Saw something on teletext about that very topic today . Organisations representing the poorly sighted saying that these replacement bulbs do not emit enough light for such people and the Gov't has admitted there is a problem there but that alternatives are available
"Sight fears over low-energy bulbs Traditional light bulbs are being phased out in favour of energy-efficient ones Charities and eyesight specialists are calling on the government to halt its plans to phase out the sale of traditional light bulbs.
Campaigners want retailers to disregard a promise to phase out the incandescent bulbs by 2012.
They say replacement lower energy bulbs do not provide enough light, causing problems for people with poor vision.
The government admitted there was a problem but said that alternatives were still available"
Seems like mine has had local adaptations . Clearly an object that needs some thought as to where it should be placed.
Or you could do what a friend did (not a lava lamp) and confuse "intumescent goop-cartridge" with "intu- something to do with high temperatures".
It remained together, but the effects after getting hot resembled PU squirty foam run riot
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