Tack Welding the Fuselage Side
The first fuselage side is all notched and ready for tack-welding.
Looking forward from the aft end.
I practiced on some scrap and then went for it. I did a single tack on the top joints while the fuse side was in the jig.
Then I pulled the fuse side out of the jig, and did two tack welds per joint on the other side.
It was kind of anti-climatic. Tack-welding only took a few hours. Notching all the cross-members and diagonals, on the other hand, took over a week! Now I have to repeat the entire process and build another fuselage side exactly like this one.
