Vince,

It looks like you used the original hold-down mount made up of two pieces of 1/8" ply glued together and replaced the 4mm tee-nuts with 1/4' tee-nuts for standard 1/4" nylon wing bolts. Is that correct? I note that there are no gussetts or other reinforcement provided for this hold-down mount - other than the thin ply fusleage doubler. Maybe reinforcement is not necessary. Has anyone seen or heard of a failure with this approach?

re: the pushrods issue, there's just too much drag reducing the free movement of these wires. I think they need to be replaced with traditional pushrods, but the pre-installed plastic guides are a significant obstruction to that kind of installation. I think it will be necessary to cut into the fuselage at each former to clip the glued in plastic guides. I was hoping someone had a better process that I hadn't thought of. I really would prefer to leave the fuselage intact.

Greg