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Old 10-02-2006 | 02:19 PM
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Default RE: In flight CA hinge failure...

When you go to epoxy a pinned hinge, make sure you heat a bit a vasaline in a spoon, fold the hinge in half and dip the hinged portion in. You want the liquid vasaline to penetrate around the pin - this keeps exoxy out of it and keeps it from being a pain to free up. Also, make sure you don't mix up the protected (vasalined) hinges from the non-protected or you'll spend an evening with an X-Acto blade cutting out epoxy and flexing the hinges - and don't as how I know that .

Also, some people will drill and put a tooth pick through the plastic flat to secure it in place after they epoxy them in place just for added security so they won't pull out.

Hogflyer.