Composite Propellant Supplies

• HTPB and Curative
• DiButyltin Dilaurate
• Silicone Oil

Field Scale

Lift-off Camera

Mandrils

Nose Cones

O-Ring Speedy Lubricator

Remove Before Flight Flags

Safe & Arm Lock

Generally used as an additive in the making of solid rocket motors.  Just a drop (technical rocket term) per batch to improve pourability of mixed propellant, add to resin prior to mixing other components.  Silicone oil is a synthetic, slippery and tough oil that never cystallizes, hardens or evaporates.

Available in 10, 50, and 100 (CS) Centistokes viscosities

$7.95 Each per 2 Ounce container (near-lifetime supply)

Also used in LOX/Alcohol motors as a fuel additive:

Clark page 105-106
"Oxygen motors generally run hot, and heat transfer to the walls is at a fantastic rate. This had been a problem from the beginning, even with regenerative cooling, but in the spring of 1948 experimenters at General Electric came up with an ingenious fix. They put 10 per- cent of ethyl silicate in their fuel, which was, in this case methanol. The silicate had the happy faculty of decomposing at the hot spots and depositing a layer of silicon dioxide, which acted as insulation and cut down the heat flux. And although it was continuously ablated and swept away, it was continuously redeposited. Three years later, also at GE, Mullaney put 1 percent of GE silicone oil in isopropanol, and reduced the heat flux by 45 percent. the GE first stage motor of Vanguard used such a heat barrier. Winternitz at RMI had similar good results in 1950 and 1951 with ethyl silicate in ethanol and in methylal, and in 1951, with 5 percent of it in ammonia, he cut the heat flux by 60 percent."

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