thunder74 said...
the plate looks like its plastic
Old designs commonly used plastic in fin boxes, parts of booms, mast bases etc.
Plastic of that age will now be brittle, and will crap out as soon as it gets loaded up with tension. Saw this on a Mistral Race of similar size we tried to resurrect recently.
Methinks NWWFAW (Not worth while F******* about with)
