The only problem I've ever heard of someone having with the fuse on one of these was someone who posted about the mount plate for the struts coming off. I would think either very high negative loads from a hard landing, or a poor glue joint would have to be involved.

Anyhoo... Here's a shot of the same area of the plans that came with mine.



Back to building.

Here's one of the longeron caps going in, between the strut mount plate and the rear float mount plate.



Putting the 1" wide strips on to the rear of that concerned me, as they would have to flex quite a bit to match the shape of the fuse. Took quite a few clamps and a couple pins, working from front to back, but otherwise it wasn't as difficult as I first thought.



Clampity clamp clamp clamp.... I also installed a 1/4 x 1/2 piece flat behind the cross piece below the trailing edge of the wing, to support the top cap pieces.




Once that all gets set up, it is time to unpin the fuse from the board.



Here, another piece of 1/4 x 1/2 goes on top of the previously mentioned piece, for the top caps to butt against.



As was done on the bottom of the fuse, the center piece goes on the top.



Lots of clamps again, and the top longeron caps go on.