I've rigged my Mosquito with nothing at all (never de-rigged it that
way) and there are videos online to show you how.Â* But that's not what
you asked.

My take is that it's nice, but not worth the extra cost.Â* With my
LAK-17a (many years later), I had a home made rigging tool that was
manually adjustable for height and fore/aft movement and I found that it
was tedious to run back and forth making minor adjustments. What I
learned after a few times rigging the ship was that the wings needed to
be at a specific height to push them in and at another specific height
to insert the pins.Â* I simply made marks on my wing stands for those two
heights and bolted the rigging tool to the height required to slip the
spar ends into the fuselage tunnel.

It was then simple to adjust the wing stands to the "insert" position
and slide the wings home, re-adjust the stands to the "pins" position
and insert the pins.

If age or strength are the driving reasons, the powered lift might be
just the ticket.Â* Last week my Stemme was used to demonstrate one of
Mark Mocho's electric riggers for a customer.Â* It was surprisingly easy
how it was to install the outer wing panel.

On 6/2/2019 8:45 AM, Paul Kaye wrote:
Oh - the glider is an LS8 and it's in a Cobra trailer, if that helps.

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Dan, 5J