I'm slowly fabricating and acquiring fittings and hardware to start assembling the wings. Right now I'm stuck on finding drag/anti-drag wires for the wings. The plans call for 9/64" SAE1050 steel rod in 51" lengths. I have absolutely no idea where to find this. I assume that there are other suitable alloys, but I don't know enough to choose one. I'm trying to keep this project as low-cost as I can while still doing things right. It occurs to me that I should just start contacting local metal suppliers as I'll need steel tubing eventually too, but thought I should get the opinions of those who know better than me first.
Any advice would be helpful.