Total success
Hey guys! A while back I made my own master fluid for an old lamp. It was a lot of work to get the proportions right and after a few weeks the water started to get cloudy. I suspect it happened due to the generic dish soap I used instead of a more "pure" surfectant.
This second time I bought a bunch of equipment to make sure I got all the measurements right as well as high quality ingredients. I followed on that legendary post with a step by step guide on how to build a lamp from scratch and it turned out PERFECT. No need to fine tune the proportions.
The total liquid volume I added to my lamp is 740ml. It is made out of 518ml of distilled water, 222ml of glycol and 6,5ml of SLS.
On future projects I intend on lowering the amount of surfactant to around 4,5ml to 5ml because the lava might be a bit too flowy for me and there are too many individual blobs.