I know a guy that built a stick looking old style plane( I don't know what it actually was) and one of the first thing's I noticed was the grey outer tube of golden rod's on the outside. It came out of the fuse just behind the wing and ran back to the tail where that end was terminated into a small piece of ply the rest was connected to the elevator. Of course he could not understand why 5 minutes later it was a pile of rubble on the ground which came after some of the loudest flutter one would ever hear. I said nothing because he is one of those scale builder's whom know everything.

Jim your post is simply pure logic (common sense) which to many are lacking.