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The Hobby Showroom => Aircraft in Pixels / Flugzeugwerke => Topic started by: uncletony on July 11, 2023, 08:28:33 AM
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One of my Patreon subscribers has commissioned me to to create what appears to have been a one-off cooling solution for a DFW C.V, which was captured by Australian armed forces in 1918. As it happens, he has a photo of his Granddad with that very aicraft at the time:
(https://i.imgur.com/6xA7BNL.jpg)
The radiator in question appears to be similar to / possibly derived from a Windhoff unit designed for a Sablatnig seaplane:
(https://i.imgur.com/idNxPvo.jpg)
If so, in this instance, the expansion cells as shown in the drawings are not fitted, and there is a kind of weird fairing fitted to the front. There also appears to be a header tower similar to those found on German airfoil radiators:
(https://i.imgur.com/r2uLoVH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/D7UKi0Q.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/x1BkSne.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/c5HgKAW.jpg)
This is my interpretation, based on the Windhoff drawings, the photos and my understanding of how these things work. There is conjecture here, but hopefully educated...
(https://i.imgur.com/ZfLxqSq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/v71IJq8.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/I0n4CC2.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/uCMWPEy.png)
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Ready for first test prints -- exploded view:
(https://i.imgur.com/ZYpoTbg.jpg)
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First test print, dry fit sans caps
(https://i.imgur.com/bYkF2qY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/QSqk1fO.jpg)
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My patron has finished his build using the field mod radiator I provided -- methinks it came out pretty nicely!:
(https://i.imgur.com/9mVcr0Dl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/S7Gy9Dul.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/A3Smponl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vIXHpY5l.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/MXGy98Gl.jpg)
(Photos and model by Mark Lorenzetti)
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It certainly did, beautiful work Mark!