Minn Flyer - You recommendation seems to fall right in line with what happened to my Mustang. I have never had any problems with CA hinges with or without CA on the bending surface. On my P-51B I pressed the control surface straight into the wing, fin, and stabilizer in an effort to eliminate any gap. This put the hinge in tension when deflected. Normally I do what you suggested - deflect the surface to some slightly exaggerated amount and insert the CA in the hole. You then get a gap and you can deal with that later. I never had a CA hinge break in 15 to 20 previous planes and now I break 2 on the right aileron and 2 on the elevator. I did the test of soaking a few different brands of CA hinges, CA'd them between balsa (made sure I got CA all over each hinge) and mounted them to my drill press plate that deflected them each at a couple 100 rpm (in both directions) and none broke. Not sure of the brands, some I cut from a sheet and some where from kits. They represent the ones I would use since I have a small drawer full of the them. The flyers at our field have very mixed opinions on CA hinges. Our 2 best builders say they won't use them any more because of failures. No hinge is failsafe, I have now had failures with all of them.