what is a CA hinge?
11-23-2002 | 12:52 AM
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what is a CA hinge?
No there is no hinge line. The hinge will bend very easy. Here is how I install them. I cut a slot for the hinge, I use the GP Slot Machine. On the hinge I put a T-pin in the center of all the hinges the surface requires and then install the hinges. The T-pin keeps the hinge centered in both surfaces. When everything is set in place I remove the T-pins then CA the hinges.
11-23-2002 | 01:58 PM
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ROG,
These hinges are like Sig EZ hinges, except they are on one long strip. The ones I used a few years back (R/C City?) were thicker than Sig hinges, but not very good-they cracked after awhile. Buy the real thing. After you install them, bend your surface a few times, and your ready to go.
Jetts
These hinges are like Sig EZ hinges, except they are on one long strip. The ones I used a few years back (R/C City?) were thicker than Sig hinges, but not very good-they cracked after awhile. Buy the real thing. After you install them, bend your surface a few times, and your ready to go.
Jetts
11-26-2002 | 10:42 PM
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From: Whitman ,
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what is a CA hinge?
That may be my problem I just can't do it. IMHO their junk. But if they work for some people. I just prefer real hinges. Normally I would not have responded with somthing like that but over the weekend I lost a plane because a hinge broke. But I do tend to push my planes to the limit. Maybe I should of checked them before the flight. SORRY
11-28-2002 | 01:56 PM
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Can'tfly,
Some tips for CA hinges-
Cut the slot at least as deep as half the hinge.
Fit the hinge to one side of the surface.
Glue w/thin CA.
Attach the other side using a back and forth, or sawing motion starting at the tip of the surface,-sometimes putting the two surfaces together is the hardest part of these hinges.
Use one drop of thin CA on each hinge, go back and use a second drop on each hinge.
It helps to drop the glue toward the slotted part of the surface, not just hit the hinge in the middle with glue.
Flex back and forth a couple of times.
One thing I do is, cut them in half, and use twice as many spaces on larger models, and on 1/2A cut them in half (width).
In my opinion-The Sig EZ hinges are very good ones, the ones that came with the early Great Planes kits sucked. They CRACKED/DELAMINATED after about 5 min.!Great Planes sells these seperately, and I haven't used them, because of earlier expieriences, though they may have made changes.
I have never had any problem with the Sig hinges, even in the AstroHog I had.
Hope this helps,
Jetts
Some tips for CA hinges-
Cut the slot at least as deep as half the hinge.
Fit the hinge to one side of the surface.
Glue w/thin CA.
Attach the other side using a back and forth, or sawing motion starting at the tip of the surface,-sometimes putting the two surfaces together is the hardest part of these hinges.
Use one drop of thin CA on each hinge, go back and use a second drop on each hinge.
It helps to drop the glue toward the slotted part of the surface, not just hit the hinge in the middle with glue.
Flex back and forth a couple of times.
One thing I do is, cut them in half, and use twice as many spaces on larger models, and on 1/2A cut them in half (width).
In my opinion-The Sig EZ hinges are very good ones, the ones that came with the early Great Planes kits sucked. They CRACKED/DELAMINATED after about 5 min.!Great Planes sells these seperately, and I haven't used them, because of earlier expieriences, though they may have made changes.
I have never had any problem with the Sig hinges, even in the AstroHog I had.
Hope this helps,
Jetts
