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Old 10-18-2004 | 12:31 PM
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Default RE: ARF hinges

Go ahead and use them but pin them.

What I do is I drill a hole (can' remember the size, but it's very small) right into the middle of the slots where the hinge is going to go. I then put at least one pin in the middle of the hinge so that when I insert them it will generally keep equal amounts of the hinge in both slots.

I then insert all the hinges and control surfaces. Then deflect the surface as far as it will go and drop some thin CA onto the hinge, the hole you drilled will allow the CA to get into the slot further (wick). Once the CA has had time to dry then I turn the surface over and repeat the gluing.

Once all that is done, I then raid the girlfriends sewing chest and gather up at least 2 flat or round head sewing pins for each side of each hinge and insert them into the hinge and push them down below the surface just a little bit. Once they are in I drop some thick CA onto the head of the pin. I then cut off the other side as flush as I can get and repeat the gluing there.

I use wire nippers (not side cutters, but the kind that have the cutter on the top of the jaw instead of the side) to cut off the pointy end of the pins. This allows me to get really close and in some case just below the surface.

Others I know use 1/8 balsa dowl and drill one hole into each hinge (one hole on the control surface and one on the wing, stab, fin, etc) and Ca them in. I prefer the sewing pins as it's much more of a cleaner install.