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Achim,
The "wire turns" you talk about are I think what I call ferrules, 10 turns of wire that secure the ends of the brace wires. I've done them by hand as well, very tiring. I have a friend here who found a machine shop that will make them for a 2 or 3 dollars each, probably on a lathe.
What does your research say about the ends of the rigging and control cables? Splicing these is one of my specialties. I assume the control cables were flexible cable (7x19 strands?) using a 5 or 6 tuck splice, wrapped with brass wire. I've seen French and Spanish splices done this way and assumed that the German ones would be similar. British and American ones are wrapped with linen cord. The rigging wires are more of a question, the Nieuport 83 at Rhinebeck seems to have non-flexible cable (like 1x19) somehow seperated into groups of strands and spliced using a tuck splice similar to the other type, but then soldered. I've seen this on other original French 1920s aircraft as well. What have you found?
AK
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