Thanks, JJ, for finally doing what some of us have been talking about
for years; i.e., grinding a longer taper on the main pins.

I've been a solo rigging advocate since the early '80s so I deal with
this every time I fly. The pins on my LS-3 had a nice long taper; if
the wings were anywhere close, I could usually pull them into
alignment with a main pin.

Not so for my ASW 24, the main pins of which have a very short taper
requiring the wings to be aligned much more closely before they can be
inserted to snug everything together. So I, too, occasionally need a
little help.

My "broomstick" is a little higher tech than JJ's, being made out of
Delrin or Nylon. But the function is the same.

The Libelle 301 and 201 did it right way back in the mid to late '60s:
an over-center "wrench" that used metal pins embedded in the top of
the wing spars to lever the wings together the last few centimeters.
Sometimes "progress" takes us in the wrong direction.

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"