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Mating Wings to Fuselage

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Bolter

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To bring you up to speed, I recently purchased a project that was a welded fuselage and wings pretty far along. After inspection, I determined the workmanship on the wings was pretty shoddy. Perhaps I should say some of the work was shoddy, other parts were awesome which makes me think the wings were built by at least two people along the way...
Anyhow, I have found a set of wings that are also pretty far along. I have taken measurements of the attach fittings which are welded on the fuselage and of the spar stub dimensions. What I have determined is the wings won't easily slide into my brackets...around 1/16" interference at the rear of the aft spar, both sides of the aircraft. I am not keen on the idea of cutting off the attach brackets and re-welding to fit the current wings. Would it be acceptable to remove the steel spar stub plates and plane the spar stub down slightly for a fit?
The next question is what to do if upon installation, the current placement does not result in proper wing rake and incidence. Could I make new spar stub plates and back-drill to fit my fuselage? I would likely have to fill in the existing attachment hole currently drilled through the spar. Any mitigation ideas?
 

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