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Old 01-04-2009 | 03:26 PM
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Default RE: What glue to use for hinges?

All of that advise for CA hinges is very good (I've never had a CA hinge fail). Except when it comes to applying the CA, I'm not a fan of appying only X amount of drops of glue. I usually soak the hinge pretty good. I've seen some models where only 5 or 6 drops of thin CA was used (per side) and after the model crashed (for different reasons, not hinge failure), if the hinge came out, looking at the wicking pattern, you could see that the thin CA hadn't wicked throughout the hinge. I've seen this even with a hole drilled in the hinge slot.

FB