extremely concerned (part tech questions, part rant)
ok, so i went and got my AR5s mounted up this week and picked them up earlier today. first thing i noticed was that the toe piece wasn't flush with the ski. not good. so the guy took them back and went at em with the posidrive. came back and basically told me that he thought the core was really really soft cause he had the posidrive cranked up to a 9 to get the toes flush with the topsheet.
so now i'm really concerned - are these things even safe to ski on if there's a chance the toe piece could rip out? and, i didn't think of this until i was half way home, if the toepieces weren't flush with the ski, then i'd bet good money that the heels aren't either, but i don't know Look bindings well enough to disassemble and reassemble, so i think i'll just have them checked out when i go to mammoth next week.
also, i mounted up some sollys on my pair of beater skis and put some woodweld in the holes when i mounted, but a couple of the screws are still able to turn (this is about 13 hours after i mounted). any advise there?
i feel so stupid - i potentially messed up on 2 pairs of skis. the worst part is, i was planning on getting the AR5s mounted when i got to mammoth (cause the shop guys in so cal know absolutely dick, as demonstrated here), but i didn't want to miss out on a day riding them, but now it looks like they're gonna be in the shop anyway. goddammit.
Last edited by The Jackamo; 11-06-2004 at 05:19 PM.
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