You didn't ask, but..............

After being out of the hobby for 17 or so years, I was still dreading two tasks when I got back in a year or so ago. I did not look forward to epoxying hinges in, nor did I eagerly anticipate gluing canopies on. And darned if I didn't discover Canopy Glue and even better..... Hinge Glue.

I didn't trust either of them when I first saw them. They looked like Elmers. No way I'm going to trust wood glue to hold hinges in, and figured it was a joke for canopies also. wrong wrong

I made up some hinged surfaces with junk balsa I pulled from my scrap balsa box. (I been modeling since we chipped our models out of rocks and flew them on dried Brontisaurus gut control lines, so that box is pretty big.) I did about 5 or 6 hinges and did the gluing a couple of different ways. And then I tried to defeat the hinging. Well, after the glue had dried, I tried. I wound up wearing my hands out and tearing up the stuff in a bench vice with vicegrips and finally cutting into the balsa to see if the glue had covered well. I knew it held absolutely, I just wondered if it had spread in the slots completely.

The stuff works. And is dead easy to work with.