Arthur Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 From my childhood I remember the Jetex range of motors for model aeroplanes. Does anyone know whether the formulation for the pellet fuel was ever discovered? The pellets are now off the market, but I'd love to make the old motors fly again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nater Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 According to the internet, the fuel was Guanadine Nitrate. I don't have a way to verify that information, I just looked it up recently when someone said they might have a source for it and I wanted to know the pyro uses for it. Seems to be more commonly used in blues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebird Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 According to the internet, the fuel was Guanadine Nitrate. I don't have a way to verify that information, I just looked it up recently when someone said they might have a source for it and I wanted to know the pyro uses for it. Seems to be more commonly used in blues. I ended up with about 30#'s of it but I am keeping mine to work out blue strobes. Yes GN was used in the Jet Ex motors . I do not know the exact formula . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
u235 Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 I ended up with about 30#'s of it but I am keeping mine to work out blue strobes. Yes GN was used in the Jet Ex motors . I do not know the exact formula . A quick google search: http://jetex.org/archive/patents/patents-history.html.See last patent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
californiapyro Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 wow no wonder they went out of production... asbestos, vanadium pentoxide... and guanidine nitrate aint too good for ya either ive heard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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