Got to agree with Wild Foamy. Go with the pined hinges. In the last year, I see 10 or so incidents of hinges comming apart. Not one of them was a pinned hinge. I've totaled two plane, and done some serious damage to a couple others in that time frame, and none of them showed any failure of the hinge. Those that were pulled out always had a bunch of balsa still attached. I use the Dubro pinned hinges and epoxy them in place. I use 5 minute epoxy to set them in one surface, and I find that I can set four hinges on one side before the epoxy starts to kick. Once I've got one aileron, elevator, or rudder done. then I go to the slow setting epoxy and attach the piece to the wing or stab. I do wax the hinge line so the epoxy doesn't get in and fowl things up. Six planes this last year built like that, one ARF and the rest kit or scratch builds.

Glad you got the plane back in one piece.

Don