A nail in the rafters , Horizontal , no head - or 1/8 wire , or suchlike ,
to hang the wing vertical - fuse horizontal . A bit of weight ( your Arm ) on the fuse & you can check if theres five yards or 5 thou slack in the controls .sounds like he was a A1 top notch builder , zero slack would mean theyre done rather well - presumably the mounts and all .
Highly Likely .
Possable with say 1 1/2 in. lap , to put cable leadouts from halfway out . Hardly worth it unless your always walking into walls .
COVERING - I reckon just a fresh blade , trim the edges of the OPEN BAYS , leave the tissue on the cap strips too .
A good wipe down with Meths or maybe Acetone - The later windy says is toxic - hygro skin whatever - SO WEAR GLOVES .
AS all of the coverd surfaces'd be flat & smooth & faired in - Just the OPEN BAYS recovered - would be chronologically renumerative
Without initially faffing about with a fantabulous paint job , youll have a airworthy beater your not afraid to give heaps in blowy conditions .
Then get going on a from scratch concours job .While the one theres finish hardens up . A fill in for the spare hours you can knock any
lumps and dings outa the one there - and months down the line , consider - piece by piece - getting a bit of paint sprayed here & there .
( Typipical Hot Car of Bike build - a trial asembly - test & tuning predates a partial strip to tart it up with a bit of paint & polish .
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What you have their is NOT a piece of junk . but Id seriously look & consider ways of minimising disruption . Even glueing the rib bits back .
Recaping thems a big pain best avoided .
looks like itd easy get to a straight light airworthy airframe ,
giving you the opportunity to create your own masterpiece from scratch , and Learn the Ropes in the air with that - meantime .
The more you hack it about the longer itll take . unnesesarilly ,
like wot when someone takes a vehical to bits . . . . $ $ $ $ $ later it might look better , but unless it was buggered it might not go as well .
And ow it goes is more important than how it looks .