Can I encourage you to test this method? I put a several hingepoints into a piece of TE stock with wood glue. I let it dry over night and tried to pull them out by hand. No go. I grabbed a pair of plyers and it tore the heck out of the wood and completely split the wood before it went anywhere. It never let go of the wood. Robart reccommends this process as well. I glue all my hinge points this way now. Years later, they hold just as well as the first try.

It works and never glues the hinge even if the glue gets into it. It breaks away in the hinge, but works well with the wood joint.

Everyone is making this into a great thread!

Brian