I just used some I found at Hobby Lobby. It was labeled as being pure
paraffin for candle making.
Trevor
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 12:56 AM Lincoln Ross <lr21643@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Any specifics or does the paraffin just end up covered with tiny bite
marks? ;-)
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:53 AM Bruce Beck <bbeck7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nitrates are lousy oxidizers for paraffin.AP works well but chuffs at low
pressure.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 4:16 PM Tr Mu <tl01001101@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This past weekend I had the idea of trying a paraffin based propellant.
Has anyone tried this? It melts at a lower temp than sorbitol and based on
the prices I found, it would end up cheaper than my current sorbitol motors.
I tried some small 10 gram batches of 80:20, 85:15, & 90:10
KNO3:paraffin. These were based around 85:15 being an "ideal" ratio as per
ProPep3 None of them would sustain combustion. I want to try it again this
weekend with finer ground KNO3, but I wanted to see if anyone else has
tried it.
Trevor
