The fittings where the wing interplane struts and landing wires attach fit so tightly it took a little persuasion with a rubber mallet to get them on.
All the bolts fit perfectly without any redrilling of the holes.
The hole with no bolt is for a screw to hold the heavy compression rib in place.
The heavy compression rib needs to be trimmed to fit over the strut fittings.
I used a piece of the same 0.095" steel for the fittings, to mark a cut line on the rib.
I was going to saw the notch but realized I could carefully do most of the notch on the belt sander, wit the table squared to the belt.
I cleaned up the corner with a mill file.
The light compression rib for the first wing bay needs a notch in the middle, fore and aft, for the drag wire clips which bolt to the spars. There are sticks of spruce which attach to each side of the rib. The sticks take the compression loads and they'll get cut to a snug fit, so the notch was just cut with a coping saw.
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