The horizontal stabilizer is interconnected to the flaps and moves through a range of four degrees between flaps up and flaps down…

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The elevator system also has a spring tab mechanism…

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Here are a couple of diagrams of the Caribou rudder system and spring tab mechanism:

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Flying Pencil,
You have obviously not seen the Rolls Royce Merlin Repair and Salvage manuals then. There are procedures for weld repairs on most parts of the engine and even how to cast insitu new sections of crankcase that have been ‘windowed’ by thrown rods.
I have a copy of the cylinder bank and head repair volume, and I would dearly like to locate copies of the rest. Does anyone else have these?

Coachwood was used in Australian made Mosquitos, along with Hoop Pine. In fact, the Daintree in Queensland was declared a National Park in Australia, originally to preserve the supplies of Coachwood for aircraft production. 🙂

Kermit Weeks had some spruce plywood especially made for the wings on his Lockheed Vega. I guess it is one of those materials that was available in the twenties and thirties, but not now. Check out his Facebook page, because he had a report a month or so ago about the Vega rebuild at Jim Kimball’s place.

I think your major stumbling block is going to be be the crankcase Ross. There is no way to bolt up the reduction gear or the accessory case/supercharger.