This looks amazing. I have mine on order for my Roden DIII, but I have the wing to Bo in the US so that I can exchange for one in which he has milled the opening - there's no way I could do that!
Hi Nigel,
I suspect Bo mills the cutout with a small CNC machine.
This can be a tricky business if you want to do the cutout for the radiator yourself?but it is doable.
First, drill out the corners and then drill more holes close together along the contour of the radiator.
Finally, use a resin saw and a good, fine file to work out the corners and straight edges.
At least, that's how I do it with the WingnutWings Albatros radiators when I replace them with Bo's fine 3D parts.
Either way, you have to be careful when you get the wing back, as its structure is significantly weaker than before ? the stiffening, solid plastic piece of the cast radiator is now missing.
Careful handling is now required, especially with the often strongly curved Roden top-wings, xplicitly if you want or need to straighten the wing.
Also, make sure that the baldachinstruts and the outer V-struts are not at different heights when reassembling so that a straight wing line is created and the wing cannot be bent again ? because if it is, it will happen in the area of the newly inserted radiator.
But I think you will know all this yourself.
Servus
Bertl
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