Have you ever spent the time to get the gap in your control surfaces to be nearly non-existent while using CA hinges? Yeah, me too...

Only to have a BIG drop of CA come out of the glue bottle and run for several inches down your "gap"? Yep... so have I. Tried to soak it up with the corner of a paper towel? That paper towel often doesn't get into the gap, which leaves a bit of CA to make for a very stiff hinge line!

Well, I've come up with a method to soak up that run of glue. I usually use Great Planes CA hinges on all of my planes, and have come up with a use for those left over substandard CA hinges that often come with ARFs.

Keep a few of these handy when installing CA hinges, and when the occasional "mishap" occurs with the CA glue, take one of these hinges and insert it in the gap between the surfaces a few inches away from the hinge, and quickly pull it through the excess CA all the way to the hinge, then pull it out of the gap. This makes for a nice, clean hinge job, and you don't have your covering glued together between the surfaces! It's amazing how much excess glue these things will soak up.

I will even use them when I didn't make a glue boo boo, just to keep it clean and remove any excess glue I might not see.

Works great for me.

Dave