Radiator

A heat sink that uses liquid running through copper fins to disperse heat build-up.

Notes

The Radiator is a cooling component crafted from copper at a suitable station, used in many advanced industrial machines such as the Advanced Combustion Engine, Excavator, Industrial Generator, Laser, and various vehicles. Since it appears as a required ingredient in a wide range of high-tier recipes, stockpiling radiators early can smooth your town’s progression into powered industry and vehicle production.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Industry level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Precision Tooling (Industry Lv 3) Electrical Efficiency (Industry Lv 6)

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Heat Sink	4	item
Copper Wiring	8	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Copper Scrap	1.66

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	35 calories
Craft time	1.5 min
Throughput	≈ 40 Radiator / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 3× Copper Scrap

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 186.67× Copper Ore
• 2.67× Clay

Categories

• Ingredient
• Parts
• Product

Obtained from

• Radiator

Used in

• Advanced Combustion Engine
• Excavator
• Industrial Generator
• Industrial Refrigerator
• Laser
• Powered Storage Silo
• Refrigerator
• Scorpion
• Skid Steer
• Truck

See also

Advanced CircuitAdvanced Combustion EngineBasic CircuitBoilerCoarse StoneCombustion Engine

Heat shimmers off copper fins, the quiet pulse of a machine breathing out its own fury.