Positioning of deadeye strops in channels

I am buildng the Jotika model HM Brig Badger. I am up to inserting deadeye strops ( around deadeyes) into the channels and I am having some difficulty. The direction manual and instruction sheets are a bit unclear. The strops appear to be too wide to fit into the channels. So I either have

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