Water temp gauge and more wings

The water temp gauge is now finished, so all the instruments are done.   Here is a pic of the original gauge that I previously posted.  It's a typical flange-mounted gauge from that era, made by A.C.  The capillary tube had been cut.





Here is the finished gauge.  New dial artwork and correct wire-wound capillary tube.

I did make more progress on the wings this week, but spent about 1 1/2 days figuring out the interplane strut fittings.  These have to be finished and installed before the wing can be trammed as they are installed with the fittings that hold the drag/anti-drag wires.  The original fittings I had were quite rusty and bent.  Getting the overall shape was no problem, but I had to know the angle the N-struts sat relative to the wings.  Were the struts straight, angle in or out from top to bottom?  After taking a lot of measurements and applying some mathematics from the wise Chief SOH-CAH-TOA (trig functions) I found the struts angled in from top to bottom at about 4 degrees.  Looking at lots of original photographs of LP-3's, this seems to agree, and is what I'm going with.  

The fittings are welded up from several pieces of .100 steel (I'll use 4130).  I made cardboard patterns and will get them cut out and welded.

Some of the original fittings and cardboard patterns

I also got the lower, RH wings spars mounted and leveled on saw horses to start assembling ribs.  Should be able to start next week on this.