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Sorry about my completely illegible post. The great planes ca hinges are plastic that has a a layer of ca wicking fiber completely covering it. When I hit the rudder the hinge stayed in the plane section but the other half(the rudder half) came out. What came out was not the half of a ca hinge but the plastic inside of the hinge that did not have the fibers on it. The hinge is not a piece of wicking material but a sandwich of wicking material with a structural piece of plastic on the inside. Maybe this is easier to understand or someone else can clarify.

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I have seen it happen in person with GP and Dubro's. I bought a few different brands years ago, and made up some samples to test there strength to destruction. The only ones that I could not get to delaminate or break were the Sig easy hinges and the Radio South blue hinges. I did not like the out come of the Dubro and Greap planes products.
Now, All I use is Radio South, and have never ever broke one or pulled it out.:D:D
I had to use a 6" vise grips to destroy the Radio South hinge.:D:D

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LOL.

Illiteracy truly is a terrible problem.

It would be helpful if you could get someone to read all of the words to you before you make a another feeble reply. Just in case you didn't notice, there are a lot of people with as much or, perish the thought, even more knowledge about certain things than even you.

As far as, 'beating this horse to death', why did you make this drippingly sarcastic post. Was it necessary, helpful or informative?...no. Was it personal?...sadly, yes.

You can go on believing that you know better or you can wake-up to the fact that your attitude is turning-away many younger potential participants in this fine hobby. The AMA has begun to recognize it, although a bit late. Please tell us all again how anyone who has a failure of a CA hinge has OBVIOUSLY installed them improperly. When you are finished with that, please explain again why it is that membership is down while sales of TOY airplanes, TOY airplane radios, and TOY airplane engines/servos/recievers of all types sizes and power classes are up.

Really sir, did you really need to pretend that you were so much better than the rest of us who enjoy this fine hobby. It really is important to read all of the words of a post, in-context, before making a reply. If you demonstrate an acute inability to accomplish that task, one can only assume that you are having difficulty with reading comprehension in general.

"We've beat this horse to death, that's for sure. As Dr., I'm outta here".

"CGr".


L O friggin L!

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What size hole do you suggest?

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LOL

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For what?

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The small holes you put in the slots for setting CA hinges.

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About 1/8 inch

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I've had great luck with CA hinges in a few planes and no cracking or failures.



somegeek

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Minnflyer, thanx for your help. Also, your tutorial on CA hinges was very educational.
Thanx again, I learned alot.

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Thanks for the nice words. Glad you found it helpful.

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will... did you get the thing in there right ?
If you leave too much of a gap....for a kadet it's not going to be that bad.
Too much or the hinges bunching up in the cracks and it's not going to pivet like
you think it should...maybe they can simulate a fluttering sound into a SIM one of these days.

Hog wash..I've seen CA hinges failed or crack. If seen my control surface break away during flight
due to fluttering.

nitro eats at CA...The last I checked I get nitro all over me model.
I build me model to fly thur gallons and gallons of nitro .

Just a thought...if you make the hinge slot thicker than the hinge... there going to be space or gaps between
the wood and the hinge.
Thin CA is not going to make up for that space.lol
Dimple spots by me compressing the wood to meet the hinge on my 4* i can live with.
But I build scales models too...go through the trouble of carving and sanding..then I'm going to make
dimples on my wings...I don't think so.lol

Okay..so you drill in a pin, dowl or tooth pick to hold it place.
The question or decision for a newbie then..do you do it before covering or after covering ?:D

Why of course there's gaps..how in the heck you do think I'm going to be able to seal the hinge line with
mono coat ???lol

mmm monocoat are not designed to be hinges.lol

yes install them then yank the heck out it. better to put the control surfaces out by hand