Nope, didn't crayon the hingeline.....but now I wish I would have.

Due to past experiences with broken CA hinges on five previous planes, this time I decided to follow the UCD instruction manual to the letter as far as how to install the CA hinges. And once again, they broke.

It has to be something that I'm doing wrong again and again because there are way too many modelers out there that have never had a problem with CA hinges.

In hindsight, I think the problem this time was that the UCD manual has you put 6 drops of CA on each side of the hinge. Even on my five previous planes with CA hinge failures, I had never used this much CA.

Perhaps 2 or 3 drops of CA on each side would have left the hinges pliable enough to keep them from breaking with extreme control throws? I'd like to think so, but that didn't stop CA hinges from breaking on several previous planes.

Do you think the crayon trick would still work even with too much CA?

I have no doubt that I'll give CA hinges a try again sometime in the near future. It's now become a personal challenge. And next time I'll be sure to give the crayon trick a try. Maybe then I can finally join the CA hinge bandwagon.