ORIGINAL: starfire73
There were three CA hinges at that joint, and they had no fiber on them, just soft, smooth, plastic.
I'm certainly not an expert here, so maybe this should be considered a question from me more than an answer, but I've done a number of CA hinges over the past couple years and have not had a lick of problems. Then again, I've not seen ordinary CA hinges that were just soft smooth plastic that didn't get some kind of pin in them. The only CA hinges I've used have been a fiber type hinge. I assume that's for the CA to wick into the hinge. If the hinge was actually plastic and didn't have a couple pins, then maybe that's the reason the elevator made an untimely departure?