Lava lamps

[Serbian-terrorist]

Should you leave them on for long, or not? Anything to be particularly aware of? Tips/tricks?

Few days ago I received one as an early-birthday-gift, and in all honesty I had problems putting it together, not to mention the fact that I posses almost no knowledge of these mythical lamps of magic

Picture very related :3

[BFK]

I'm afraid to leave it on for too long because it gets really hot.

[WilliWowza]

Well when I had one it would get reallyhot, so just be careful when touching or being near it. Don't think there's any dangers in leaving it on for long as far as I'm aware, probably depends on the quality of the lamp.

[Eman110]

Yes i worry too cuz mine gets REALLY hot. So just don't leave it on for a long time.

[AlmostDead1]

Don't drink the liquid inside.

[Bendt]

Omg, that's so eighties.

[shocktherapy]

i want one now! how much do they cost?

[afuckingname]

id leave it on for long and pour over your fucking face

[thenewbies]

At 11/2/08 01:52 PM, shocktherapy wrote: i want one now! how much do they cost?

A lot. That's my guess. I've never had a real one before.

[CapnCrunchDaPimp]

I had one, and it was awesome, but I was paranoid about a fire starting or something, so the longest I'd leave it on is overnight. I'm not really sure about the warnings and stuff though. Maybe you should check with a manual or something.

[InnerChild548]

At 11/2/08 01:52 PM, shocktherapy wrote: i want one now! how much do they cost?

Like $10-15

[RoobyKillAll]

It's just oil, wax, and colour. Kinda neat. I had one, but I left it in the cold so it froze and shattered everywhere. Awh.

[xports]

Don't leave it on for longer then 6 or so hours. The heat will eventually cause the glass to shatter, which is bad. Trust me on this one.

[Raguel]

From what I see here and from what I've heard in real life, nobody knows how long is ok to leave a lava lamp on for.

I always worried about mine and they do get damned hot.

Saying that though, I have left it on overnight quite often and no fires have ensued.

[JohnnyWang]

Don't leave it on for too long, and for the love of god, don't put it on a stove, it will explode. True story.

[goldenmoon]

Let it get like uber hot, then have sex with it

[DrClay]

I love my lavalamp, though I cannot leave it on too long

[Serbian-terrorist]

At 11/2/08 01:46 PM, WilliWowza wrote: So just be careful when touching or being near it.

Alrighty, I can already feel the heat although it's 1.5 meters away from me D:

At 11/2/08 01:56 PM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: Maybe you should check with a manual or something.

It's on Dutch >.>

At 11/2/08 01:53 PM, thenewbies wrote:

At 11/2/08 01:52 PM, shocktherapy wrote: i want one now! how much do they cost?

A lot. That's my guess. I've never had a real one before.

Nah, not at all. It's around 15 euros last time I checked.

[ixintro]

Cool, you got one with red crap in it! Here's what you do, keep it on continuously until all the crap burns into big black globs... No, I'm not trying to ruin it, listen. Keep it off for a week or two, replug it, the blackness will chip away and now you have BLOODY LAVA LAMP!

It sort of looks like blood or just bloodstone, happened to me by accident like 4 years ago.

[Lost-Chances]

At 11/2/08 02:01 PM, Raguel wrote: I always worried about mine and they do get damned hot.

"The lamp consists of an incandescent bulb which heats the contents of a tapered glass bottle containing water and a translucent mix of wax and carbon tetrachloride (although other combinations may be used). A metallic wire coil which is hidden in the base of the lamp both furthers the necessary heat convection and suspends the falling blobs of liquid wax."

At 11/2/08 02:02 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: Don't leave it on for too long, and for the love of god, don't put it on a stove, it will explode. True story.

"An episode of the TV show MythBusters demonstrated that heating a lava lamp on a stove could cause the lamp to explode, and injuries sustained from such an explosion could be fatal. The inspiration for that experiment came from a news story concerning a Kent Washington, man who in 2004 died after a lava lamp that he was heating on a stove (in order to bypass the time delay associated with heating the wax) exploded, sending glass shards into his chest."

Hello Wiki!

[MyxEfficient]

The longer you leave it on, the hotter the lava lamp will become, therefore the chance for it to shatter. The wax isn't going to cause a fire but it'll hurt if it gets on you (or your carpet >_>) but if it does shatter and the heated wires hit something flammable, there's your problem.

[Racoonmario]

I haven't switched my lava lamp on in ages. Those lightbulbs my lava lamp needs are fucking expensive and I do not dare turning it on without the proper bulb.
But as long as you have the correct lightbulb, you can leave it on for 2 or 3 days.

[Raguel]

At 11/2/08 02:05 PM, Lost-Chances wrote:

At 11/2/08 02:01 PM, Raguel wrote: I always worried about mine and they do get damned hot.

Wiki stuff.

Why'd you quote me with that?

[Lost-Chances]

At 11/2/08 02:09 PM, Raguel wrote:

At 11/2/08 02:05 PM, Lost-Chances wrote:

At 11/2/08 02:01 PM, Raguel wrote: I always worried about mine and they do get damned hot.

Wiki stuff.

Why'd you quote me with that?

Closest sentence I could quote off you to the Wikipedia point in the article about hazards.

[Serbian-terrorist]

At 11/2/08 02:01 PM, Raguel wrote: From what I see here and from what I've heard in real life, nobody knows how long is ok to leave a lava lamp on for.

Aye, I've heard at least 50 different stories on the topic of The Adventures Of Lava Lamps, but you kinda get the general picture after a while... I guess :3

At 11/2/08 02:11 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: Closest sentence I could quote off you to the Wikipedia point in the article about hazards.

All that talking about how Lava lamp works, just to end it with a small paragraph of hazards, saying "might kill you"

Gotta love it

[Raguel]

At 11/2/08 02:11 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: Closest sentence I could quote off you to the Wikipedia point in the article about hazards.

But it wasn'tt about hazards..........it was just the general structure of a lava lamp.

[Serbian-terrorist]

At 11/2/08 01:49 PM, AlmostDead1 wrote: Don't drink the liquid inside.

That's the only part of the instructions that I understood :D

[JKMonkey]

if you do wanna leave it on for long, put it on top of metal or something that doesnt burn easily

[RedTsunami]

Uh-oh. I made a thread just like this one which got locked.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/9785 45

Good luck.

[Serbian-terrorist]

At 11/2/08 02:54 PM, JKMonkey wrote: if you do wanna leave it on for long, put it on top of metal or something that doesnt burn easily

I don't know if that's a smart idea, electricity + metal = nono

At 11/2/08 03:12 PM, RedTsunami wrote: Uh-oh. I made a thread just like this one which got locked.

Making a thread about something being cool or not is rather different from asking for an advice.