ORIGINAL: paladin
Well, if I can take a moment from this to discuss the Me 109 from CMPro, I know some of you have herd of it (sorry, I have 25, 22, 18 and 3 year old in my house with wife and I, and I don’t get to say things like that without paying for it for weeks). Anyway back to the plane.
The hinges looked like Delrin in its neutral state (uncolored). Delrin stretches easily when put in tensile loading, it deforms easily in compression. If these hinges are Delrin it will not take long for standard flight loads to elongate the hinge pin hole until it can pull through. So I devised a test to see if these hinges have any of the bad traits of Delrin, I tried to pull them apart holding each end in a pair of pliers without using leverage to amplify my strength. As I feared it took little effort to pull the hinge apart. Judge for your self in the pic’s below
Joe
From the pics you posted the hinge point has been twisted 90 degrees to the hinge angle. You can see the deformity quite clearly. ANY hinge will break if you do that. The flight loads are going to be along the axis that SCALECRAFT tested.
As for the little hinges on the flaps/speedbrakes.. They scare me.