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10-19-2019, 08:28 PM #2851Registered User
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yeah i don't like high heels either ...holes in the water bed eh ?
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10-19-2019, 08:33 PM #2852
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10-21-2019, 07:45 AM #2853
PSA: Mount your own fucking skis.
So I learned something about the Hawx Xtd. The toe pin holes are not perfectly perpendicular to center line. I did the toe hole approach and I inadvertently created a left and a right ski. It’s minor, and NBD, but happened with both skis. The outside boot hole is a millimeter back from the inside. It’s visible if you look at the boot too.
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10-21-2019, 07:48 AM #2854
Broken YouTube we want to see
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10-21-2019, 10:35 AM #2855
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11-12-2019, 09:31 AM #2856Registered User
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Broke out these old favorites for another round of fun. Had some old FT-12's laying around. Figured why not for early season skinning missions, ie, rock skinning. First I had to find space around the three other previous mounts. Amazingly they ended up being on the line.
Finished project. One spinner in the heal to deal with.
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11-12-2019, 09:47 AM #2857Registered User
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11-12-2019, 10:09 AM #2858Registered User
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11-12-2019, 11:09 AM #2859
Question (disclaimer: I'm not doing this myself - just asking because I see this in buy-sell a lot): If you have the same BSL and bindings as skis that already have holes, do people generally post that info so you can go into the same holes? Is that generally safe as long as you don't strip the threads and re-glue?
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11-12-2019, 11:22 AM #2860Registered User
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11-12-2019, 11:32 AM #2861
I'll always use an insert if reusing holes. It's so easy to spin a screw on the second try IMO especially with many mfgrs using poplar and softer wood cores. YMMV.
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11-12-2019, 11:52 AM #2862Registered User
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i will reuse holes, if you can crank the screw down then its like a brand new hole right
but if you are really worried chop up fibreglass matt into 1/2" pieces, mix up with 24 hr epoxy ( not too epoxy rich ) push the mix into the holes with a nail, run the screws in, after the epoxy cures those holes will be good as new
if yer really worried about spinners or even if you have a spinner just run the screws in and stop before they spin, let cure for a couple days and crank the screws down
fi you can crank the screws down after a day then thats pretty much like screwing into a brand new hole right ?
Other folks on TGR have done this and it worked for themLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-12-2019, 12:23 PM #2863Registered User
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^ What he said. Have done that several times with no ill effects.
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11-12-2019, 12:32 PM #2864Registered User
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yeah I discovered cooking skewers are the exact perfect size for filling binding holes, I needed something and they were in a kitchen drawer
I wouldn't count on a bamboo skewer to remount a binding screw into and i would use epoxy
I once tried hardwood dowel from the HW store with gorrila glue, the hardwood dowel was not quite big enough but i figured it wouldn't be a problem, the next day the expanding GG had puked the piece's of dowel up out of the holes and onto the ski top ... pretty funnyLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-12-2019, 08:03 PM #2865
Somewhere, likely in this thread, some maggot enginerd did a pull out test comparing virgin holes and reused holes and determined that the reused ones were as tight as the virgin ones as long as they aren't stripped. Inserts are great if you're gonna be swapping bindings frequently (or seasonally) between multiple skis.
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11-12-2019, 11:54 PM #2866
Used holes as tight as virgin holes?
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11-13-2019, 12:11 AM #2867
I thought this was the “mount your own fucking skis” thread. Am I mistaken?
The point is that pullout strength is not diminished by threads in the holes as long as they’re not stripped. A lot of people tap holes after they’re drilled, which is essentially the same thing.
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11-13-2019, 08:26 AM #2868
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11-13-2019, 10:49 PM #2869
drill, ski, epoxy problems.
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11-14-2019, 05:46 PM #2870
Mounted my own friggin binders. Look pivot 12 to black crows. Just wanted to add that I clamped my cambered skis flat to the bench and that made life easier.
Also that the forward pressure setting was correct based on the little indicator, but then my boot sort of moved around and I thought the mount was frigged and loose and the holes would wallow during the day and I freaked but it turns out not enough forward pressure.
Now I want to do the inserts on a pair of skis so I can also swap for touring tech clamps while on a trip and not bring the second pair of skis.
Inserts seem kind of pricey... They should be sold in packs for a pair of skis. 8*2
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11-15-2019, 12:26 PM #2871
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11-15-2019, 05:24 PM #2872
Shoulda mounted my own f'n skis.
I don't have the tools or the brains.
Shop mounted one stick on the line, the other stick more than +1 from the line.
Now telling me that 1cm minimum between holes means my choices now are -2 or +3 if i want them equal.
if I wanted a f'd up mount, I woulda mounted my own f'n skis.
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11-15-2019, 05:31 PM #2873
PSA: Mount your own fucking skis.
If the ski that’s messed up is mounted more than 1cm in front of the line, shouldn’t they be able to move that mount to the line and still maintain 1cm between holes?
FWIW I don’t follow the 1cm between holes guideline and I’m still alive
Either way sounds like they owe you a pair of skis
ETA mount your own fuckin skis next time
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11-15-2019, 06:04 PM #2874
tell the shop they can mount you closer to +0.0cm if they give you new skis, or maybe they give you a different binding model that dodges the holes (and is a binding model that you approve), or maybe the shop's very best employee can find a better way to avoid hole conflicts by using your same old skis and bindings, but this time with willingness to move an adjustable heel away from holes and then adjusting the mounted heel to compensate for a mispositioned heel mount.
"Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality."
Einstein
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11-15-2019, 06:22 PM #2875
-They say one whole cm of untouched based between holes. edge to edge. So maybe not quite +3? Who knows exactly where it lands when all said and done.
I know plenty of folks who don't follow the 1cm rule and also didn't perish from it.
-I'd rather not mount my own f'n skis for the first time on a remount on a shop mistake on brand new skis, 'bending' hole proximity advice. What could go wrong.
-They are willing to buy new skis if it comes to that. Rather avoid.
-Yeah. Seriously. Mount my own f'n skis.
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