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Old 12-19-2003 | 01:08 AM
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Dave McDonald
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Default RE: Have CA Hinges Ever failed on you? Vote!

I'm obviously in the minority here, but my luck with CA hinges hasn't been very good at all.
Although I have never had a CA hinge pull out, I've had way more than my share of torn CA hinges.

CG Chipmunk; broke an elevator hinge twice, then broke a rudder hinge.
Diamond Dust; broke an elevon hinge.
Midwest Sukhoi; broke an elevator hinge.
CG Eagle 2; broke an elevator hinge. but replacement CA hinges are still working perfectly to this day.
H9 Advance; these CA hinges never broke, but the plane died prematurely.
Sig Fazer; broke a rudder hinge.
Morris Sledge; broke a rudder hinge.
GP UCanDo; broke a rudder hinge, then broke an elevator hinge, then broke two aileron hinges.

The Chipmunk, Sukhoi, Eagle 2, Fazer, and Sledge were acquired as used planes with the CA hinges already installed.
The Diamond Dust, and UCanDo were hinged by me. The Eagle 2 elevator was rehinged by me.
The H9 Advance came with factory installed CA hinges.

The Chipmunk, Sledge, and UCanDo had pull-pull rudder systems, so the CA rudder hinge failures didn't really surprise me. But the Advance also had a pull-pull rudder system, and those CA hinges never failed.

I guess CA hinges just weren't meant for me. []