Rudder Pedals

Quick update for today: my reinforced pedals are now painted and ready to be reinstalled! I have read that some S1 pilots experienced failures of their brake pedals. A thread on biplane forum here talks about this problem. I haven't found mine broken but since I had to make welds on the fuselage, I took the opportunity to add small gussets out of 0.050" thick 4130 steel before they do! Also decided to change the colour from black to light gray to ease up inspection for cracks. Here is how they use to look before I removed them (the weak parts are circled):

Here's how they look now with the reinforcements shown by the arrows:

Thanks to my friends Mark and Scott for the nice welds and paint!