An update fro those following along with the saga.
Have found a 1984 Archer II carcass in the US - the whole thing less the engine for a very good price, contacts are arranging to go take a close look on Wednesday.
Looking like we may put the whole thing in a container and ship it to Guadeloupe so my regular A&P at Wood Aero can do the work - we will them use the container to ship a biog stcok of broken airplane bits up to the US.
When this is done I'll do a video and put it on You Tube and a coupel with my adventures flying around the Caribbean - Monserrat will be one destination, never been but have just picked up a consulting gig at the airport there.
My Archer has spent a lot of time on the ground in the past three or four years - a year during Covid now this past year - other than that it did get a couple of short flights a week, usually a flit around the island and a couple of touch and goes; things keeping moving and shaking preventing corrosion. No corrosion was found during last year's annual, this time the grinding took off a chunk - if I could figure out how to get photos to appear on here you guys could take a look - anyone got an idiot's guide to how to do it?