The primer cured overnight so I could assemble the first component of the fuselage.
First step is to rivet the nutplates:
There is some confusion in the manual if these 3 rivets should be 4 or 4,8 mm. The holes are all 4 mm, but I saw on multiple blogs that 1 rib had holes of 4,9 mm and therefore up-sizing the holes was required. TAF stated that they use 4 mm, perfect no up-sizing needed:
It’s important to first rivet the top bracket with 6 rivets before rivet the top 2 nutplates, otherwise 2 rivets conflict with the nutplates:
I love this rivet gun for tight places:
Another important rivet order issue is for rib 6, first rivet rib 6 to the assembly otherwise the center rivet conflicts:
No rivet orientation is stated in the manual so I oriented the rivets so that the tail is at the thickest part:
The 2 AN3 bolts are torqued to 29 inch/lbs:
Ready:
Next I test fitted rib 5:
And test fit of rib 4:
Like other builders here are some labeling issues right = left and left = right.
Rib 5 deburred and primed:
