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Old 09-20-2004 | 10:54 PM
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bentgear
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From: Brandon, MS
Default RE: CA Hinges installing

Typed a great reply and got a server timeout. Lets try it again.

OK Sportair, educate me. Waht type and size planes have you got the CA hinges on that you jammed to no gap after you had put the thin CA on the hinge. Bet they are lightly loaded with small surface deflections.

First let me say I like CA hinges. I tend to use them on everything up to 1/4 scale. I also tend to use large surface deflections that will crack a nogap CA hinge in two.

This forum is littered with folks cussing CA hinges becasue of some type of failure, usually because of bad installation. I think if someone is going to use them they should at least learn one of the correct ways to do it. IMHO putting CA on the hinge and then putting it in the slot at some point is guarateed to lead to failure. If you have a way of doing it and making it work please make a vidio and educate me, I would like to learn how to do it.

Ed M.