Some riveting, and starting on carpet (luggage extension)

TLDR

• Finished installing antenna plates
• Completed the luggage extension carpeting

Detail

Antenna plates

Previously I finished installing all antenna plates except two: the top plate for comm1, and one on top of luggage compartment for GPS2 (GA-56). The GA-56 had issues with nut plates and I ran out of rivets (reference). My order arrived so I installed the two plates quickly.

Carpeting

My intention is to make the center console as complete as possible before moving everything to the airport hangar. Since I have never worked with carpeting before, I started with the luggage area. If I make any mistake there, nobody will discover :)

The upholstery kit did not have much instructions. The only thing I could find is a few pages on the fuselage KAI. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle. I spent most of the evening guessing which piece should go where. At the end I decided to start with the luggage extension bottom floor.

Someone on the builder group recommended Barge Cement for glue, so that’s what I used.

I smeared the glue both on the floor and the carpet, and used a roller thing to press the carpet down firmly. I will wait for a couple of days to see how they attach to each other. I don’t expect to see any problem though.

This process went slower than I thought. As I get more familiar with how this works I am hoping to speed up.