Hi - hoping someone has been through the same thing and can maybe help me.

A day away from taking my Avistar, my first ever plane, for its maiden flight, I noticed that the ailerons appeared to be putting a lot of strain on the servo. I checked and noticed a lot of CA build up on a few of the hinges (those one piece flimsy ones that come with the plane, and have to be wicked into place). So I tried to carefully scrape as much as I could off with the back of a scalpel blade, but I fear I've seriously weakened the hinges and rather want to replace the lot of 'em.

So I bought a little pack of Great Planes articulated plastic hinges which I intend to fit. But, I first have to remove all of the old CA, bits of hinge and gunk from the slots in the ailerons and the wings. And more importantly, I need to remove the ailerons from the little metal pins they were epoxied to, without breaking them, or the wings, or anything else important.

Ay ideas on how to do this while doing the least possible harm? I would hugely appreciate a step by step from anyone out there.

I'm actually very near writing this plane off to practice and starting again from scratch!

Please help.