Yak's Muddy Fox Courier, Trek Multitrack and other bikes

Budget gravel bike project is on! I picked up this Trek 750 Multitrack yesterday. It was going for peanuts on ebay but the seller ended up not wanting any money for it at all, which was nice.

It'll need a lot of work, but all the essential components e.g. BB and hubs are in surprisingly good nick. The owner had it since new for 20 years which I found kind of reassuring.

(the weird seat clamp position is because I loosened it off to squirt some WD40 in there. Thankfully I got the seat post moving after a bit of persuasion)

The plan is to do a super cheap budget built to start with, just get it rolling and figure out if I want to commit to a drop-bar build (back problems in the past have put me off drop bars but hoping a more relaxed 'gravel' position and actually doing the pilates I've been talking about will take care of it). If I'm happy with it, I'll splash out on some more boujie parts in time for a trip on the Caledonian way this summer.

To do:

1. Replace missing/broken spokes
   
2. Remove electrical tape
   
3. Budget drop bar set up e.g. quill stem adapter and whatever parts come up on here or ebay (see my wanted thread)
   
   

Getting the electrical tape off will be a massive faff, anyone have any advice on this? I tried with some nail polish remover and a sharp knife to some success but I think that will take ages. At least the paint looks lovely underneath: