RE: I retired the trainer.
After seeing RCKen's posts about trainers, I rethought my original decision to start stripping a trainer I purchased originally for my daughter.
I'm in the process of taking the Alpha 40 and converting it to a tail dragger ( easy to do except for the tail wheel ) and installing light tubes and self illuminating LED's all around.
It will become my new "night flyer" and "winter bird" ....