Ready to Rivet - the same center hinge and bearing assembly, clamped tightly to the work bench with some 1x2 wood blocks to prevent damaging the powder coat finnish on the hinges. One rivet has been inserted - the plans calle for a -5 size rivet (won't go into detail about rivet nomenclature and sizing here), but the width of the assembled pieces warranted a slightly longer -6 rivet - so that is what I used.
One tip about this - make sure that there is always at elast one cleco installed on either side of the rivet that you are about to set. This keeps the parts from separating due to too loose of a fit resulting from inadequate clamping.
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