I'm VERY new to the hobby and recently purchased my first airplane, the Alpha Trainer. I love the plane, however, my instructor found that the left wing aileron wasn't functioning properly. After sending the wing back to Hangar 9, I have received a new wing. That's the good news. The bad news is that the wing is the ARF version and not the RTF version. I didn't think this was a problem until I opened the box and the ailerons fell off the wings! After another call to Horizon support, I find that the ARF version requires me to purchase hinges (which the technician recommended CA Hinges?) and install them to the wing and alieron and glue them in place with CA.

So I go to the local hobby store, and purchase CA hinges, CA, and the small little tubes that will dispense the CA as needed. I talk to the clerk, and he tells me what I needed to do. Of course, he has YEARS of experience doing this, and I have yet to even solo my Alpha, and have NEVER even come close to doing any model building.

I have read all of the posts here regarding the CA Hinge and the pros and cons. The one thing I didn't see was what the guy in the hobby store told me was to drill a small hole on the hinge slot of the aileron and trailing edge of the wing to make it easier to apply the CA, but I'm not sure that is a good idea. I have tried a dry run by installing the hinge in the wing and then trying to attach the aileron to the hinges, and it wasn't pretty.

So that brings me to my 2 questions:

1. Is it a good idea to drill these holes?

2. How on earth is the aileron going to attach to the wing with the hinges and then allow me to glue them?

Any advice would be MUCH appreciated. And if it doesn't work out......I'll have a cheap Alpha for sale!

Thanks!!!!