I still have to order many of the accesories needed to finish the build so I started with the fixed gear. The gear cutouts are in place but need to be enlarges slightly for the gear to pass. The fuse files easily. The gear attach to the lower portion of the ply gear plate but access is limited from below.
I made a paper pattern of the gear and taped it ti the top of the plate with hole locations marked. Unfortunately only the holes closer to the middle of the fuse could be drilled with an electric drill. the two holes closer to the fuse wall needed to be drilled with a hand drill setup. The positioning of the gear was checked and made symetrical with a string from the tail to each leg.
Each gear leg was fastened with 3, 4mm bolts from the bottom. In the completed picture you can see that the bottom of the ply plate has a layer of carbon fiber on it.