I survived and so did the glider although I needed about a month and a half for my wrist to recover and the glider needed a bit of repair on the leading edge (sail rip from the fence).
The sail went to WW for the repair, I removed the sail myself figuring it was a good opportunity to get to know all the details of my gliders internals. For the most part this has been true. WW did a fine job on the repair as it's barely detectable unless you're looking for it. When the sail came in I put it on the frame, I had plenty of help in the LZ and I took my time committed NOT to fly that day. My only focus was to put the sail on and adjust the sprogs if they looked like they needed it. When the sail was on everything looked good and I was pretty happy with myself.
I test flew the glider the next day and much to my surprise the glider was even faster than I remembered. Now I know my wrist was not nearly as strong as it had been but this glider was on rails. When I pulled the VG on the basebar wanted to keep going, and this was only with 1/3 of the VG pulled. Matter of fact I was pushing back at the bar so it wouldn't go further than my bellybutton. I let up on the VG and flew around a bit more trying the VG from time to time with the same results each time. I decided to check the speed range but still I didn't go beyond 1/3 VG. I couldn't believe how fast this glider was picking up speed. At this point I figured my sprogs must have been WAAAY to low. The rest of the day I flew with no VG. All of the handling aspects of the glider other than the speed seemed OK.
I flew the glider one more time in this configuration to make sure I wasn't just being a chicken, nope it's going way too fast (I recorded 70, I had never seen speeds like that before). Soooo, I figured the sprogs needed to come up (significantly), I brought the inboards up 3 turns and left the outboards in their current position (thinking the inboards would have the greatest effect). After flying the glider again, I didn't notice any difference. I still had to push the control bar forward to keep it from going past my belly at 1/3 VG. This is crazy I thought. I couln't image that the sprogs had moved that much during the re-assymbly. I was certain that I measured them correctly counting threads before and after. I resigned myself to bringing up the outboard sprogs 2 turns, which I did, but still this didn't set well with me because I knew I set them right before.
All the time this is going on the Khazakstan video is going through my head, thinking, will I be next? This just isn't making any sense to me. But, I'll test fly it one more time. But before I did my test flight with the outboard sprogs brought higher, I recalled reading a post on the OZ Report from Nick Palmer that described my problem nearly exactly. I decided I better check to see if I had accomplished the same mistake. First I referred to the manual and really didn't need to look any further. Once I saw the manual I knew I had misconfigured my attachment points. Seems like Nick, I had placed my sail attachment on top of the LE instead of the bottom near the outboard leading edge. This allowed the tip to rotate downward too far as the VG was applied.
Today I corrected that problem and the glider flew much more like it should, full VG was somewhere just past my chest but the bar didn't want to keep going like before. I'll be checking the sprogs over the next few flights for correctness but at this point I'm not feeling quite as divergent as I was before.
Moral of the story ......
RTFM !!!!!
Luckily I did it the same on both wings. Can you imagine what it might have been like if one wing was one way and one wing was another? Scary. In any case, it was simple to fix, and I learned a lesson. I used a permanent marker to mark the leading edges so I now would have to REALLY mess up to do it incorrectly. There is a pathway on the leading edge now that is where the webbing goes. It would be hard to mess that up.