First off let me tell you guys that this is the first time I have ever used CA hinges on anything bigger than a .40. Secondly I am not crying and bashing Great Planes.
I finally got a chance to fly a pattern plane that I designed today and on the second flight the left elevator left the plane and took the left horizontal stab with it. Well needless to say I did not get to land it. I had 2 people standing next to me and they saw what happened so at least I did not have to try and remember what happened in the last 3 seconds of flight. I used GP CA hinges but before I decided to install them I read several how to's and felt they would work. Well as you can see in the pictures below all the papre/fuss came off the hinge (the plastic middle section) and off came the elevator. All that is left of the hinge is the slick plastic section where the paper/fuss is supposed to impregnated onto. There is no way the paper/fuss could have stayed on because the plastic underneth it is totally slick.
At first when walking up on the wreckage it looked like the CA hinges had pulled out of the wood but upon closer inspection that was not the case at all.
Do you ever get that funny little voice in the back of your head that says "This Won't Work"??? Well I got that feeling several times but I did not listen to myself.
I am showing you guys this in hopes that if anyone is using the GP CA hinges to be aware of what happened to me. I will call and talk to customer support in the A.M. to hopefully make them aware that there might be a bad batch of hinges floating around...and no I don't expect them to pay for a damn thing because it is just one of those things that happens.
This was a costly lesson(2-Hitec 5645's, O.S. 91 FX with Tuned Pipe, JR PCM Rx)...[
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This is the first time in 30 years of RC that a hinge has ever failed on me ...I always use the Robarts or the Du-Bro 1/4 scale hinges.
The pics below might be a little fuzzy but you can see where all the paper came of the hinge surface...as a matter of fact you can scrape the paper with your finger nail.