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  1. #4276
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    Quote Originally Posted by BC. View Post
    Shop’s open 7 days a week....

    I’m there on Saturdays....11-close. Just ask the boys up front to get the “old” guy in the back.....I’ll be rockin in the back as I crank out all the installs from the week....lol.
    Is there a secret password or handshake? maybe I can just bring some beer and sabatinis?


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  2. #4277
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    PSA: Mount your own fucking skis.

    Bring some of Viva’s blonde/red head chicks and you’re in!

    Pm me when ur around town...

  3. #4278
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    Haha! Will do


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  4. #4279
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    right when i thought i had it all figured out, i ended up with a slight misalignment on this pair of skis. not much - probably .5-1mm or so. special thanks to Norse for talking me through this and helping me not freak out - i loosened the toe, pulled it more in alignment, and then tightened it again. it's still not perfect but i think the worst that can happen is it'll chew up the rubber on my boots a little bit, or, i'll die.

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  5. #4280
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  6. #4281
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    My centering setup. Pretty simple and good enough.

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    Made the wife center punch, tap, and drill her own skis.

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  7. #4282
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  8. #4283
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    Quote Originally Posted by doebedoe View Post
    My centering setup. Pretty simple and good enough.

    Made the wife center punch, tap, and drill her own skis.
    Your shop looks as cold as mine.

  9. #4284
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    Quote Originally Posted by jackattack View Post
    Your shop looks as cold as mine.
    Actually wasn't that cold. That's just the garage puffy.

  10. #4285
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    Quote Originally Posted by ~mikey b View Post
    Nordica Enforcer 104 w/ Salomon Shift


    Attachment 350030

    YaBoyBlue helped me with these - hand delivered with holes installed using a Jigarex - I’ll mount the next set with mine

    I gotta say, I dig the Jigarex

    and

    I’m super impressed with the Shift bindings - I think I’ve got the forward pressure adjusted properly, and the toe height seemed dead nuts on without fucking with it

    and the Enforcer 104 shape looks sweet - I can’t wait to get out on these
    That is something you have to watch with that binding. Put the toe height up a bit before you click in and pull up on the toe while clicked in. There is often a scenario that the toe height looks perfect on those but its because the binding is artificially holding the toe down. When you ski it, it will pop right up and you will prerelease all day. Its the biggest quirk of the binding.

  11. #4286
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    Quote Originally Posted by tgapp View Post
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    right when i thought i had it all figured out, i ended up with a slight misalignment on this pair of skis. not much - probably .5-1mm or so. special thanks to Norse for talking me through this and helping me not freak out - i loosened the toe, pulled it more in alignment, and then tightened it again. it's still not perfect but i think the worst that can happen is it'll chew up the rubber on my boots a little bit, or, i'll die.

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    Yeah that's frustrating. The tightening order of the toe screws can easily swing the heel a couple mm in either direction, especially if you have 1 or two screw holes that aren't perfectly perpendicular to the surface or wandered a little when drilling.

    I had this situation and was able to fix it by iteratively tightening one, and then a second till I found the combination of the first two screws that put the heel where I wanted it. Torque those ones down, check alignment, then torque the remaining two (or 3) down.

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  12. #4287
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    It was a dark and stormy night

    I was too high to drive and the stores were all closed anyhow

    I was mounting skis, I needed to plug some holes so i looked in the kitchen drawer for some plastic plugs,

    imagine my suprise to find there were no plastic plugs

    but I did find a whole bag of BBQ skewers

    I used those



    So to mount any binding where the boot heel/end of heelpiece frame needs to drop exactly into a heel piece

    mount the heel piece dead center on the ski first

    next drill & mount the toe piece by ONE screw ONLY

    now lock the boot heel into ski mode, the toe piece shifts/rotates infinitesimally around that one screw to finds its happy place so you can drill another hole which will lock it in

    when you get another screw into the toe piece it should be perfectly located but check to see if the boot heel drops into the pins or heel piece perfectly, if its not perfectly aligned you got 2 more screws to try for a perfect alignment




    Instead of drilling all the screwholes using a flacid paper jig and wondering wtf you did
    Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know

  13. #4288
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    tgapp, LOL.

  14. #4289
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    Quote Originally Posted by mtskibum16 View Post
    I had some decent slowset I got when I was fixing some delam on my Moment Bibby Pros years back. Was planning to use that for my fix, but when I dug it out one bottle had gone solid. I'm pretty handy I just don't tend to break stuff and need epoxy very often. $25 for g/flex and I could probably just go get a helicoil. That's why I was wondering if there were cheaper options that will work.
    Fundamental storage issue.
    First off-- don't cut the dispensing spout, just remove lids for dispensing.
    For storage:
    Squeeze bottle till component is @ the rim. Take inner seal and simultaneously push seal into bottle while releasing pressure with squeeze hand. Once inner seal is in just snuggly screw your uncut lid on. Should look like thisClick image for larger version. 

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    Store it in a cool, dry place. Less light the better too.
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    For a truly gaped hole, helicoil is the way to go.

  15. #4290
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    Quote Originally Posted by tuco View Post
    Fundamental storage issue.
    First off-- don't cut the dispensing spout, just remove lids for dispensing.
    For storage:
    Squeeze bottle till component is @ the rim. Take inner seal and simultaneously push seal into bottle while releasing pressure with squeeze hand. Once inner seal is in just snuggly screw your uncut lid on. Should look like thisClick image for larger version. 

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    Store it in a cool, dry place. Less light the better too.
    I prefer this FG material for spinnersClick image for larger version. 

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    For a truly gaped hole, helicoil is the way to go.
    I go through G-Flex too fast for it to harden up, but you can usually soften up resin by heating it with a heat gun gently for a bit (I do this once in a while with my cheap Super Glue epoxy - just fire away at the plastic bottle). For filling holes that need some integrity I use the cut up shards of the fiberglass matt that comes with boat/shower stall repair kits.

  16. #4291
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    I’ll be attempting to fix some spinners today. Got my slow set epoxy and fiberglass mat all ready. Fingers crossed.

  17. #4292
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    If any of you decided to create a tool like the one i suggested a few posts back (i deleted the post), then I would revisit the idea if I were you.

    The suggested tool was accurate at first, but then increasingly was not. So it was an ok idea, but it sadly did not hold up to use very well.

    leason identified: when making custom tools, try them for a bit before sharing so that you are sure that they hold up to use. The idea is to help fellow mags out, not have them jump into a rabbit hole together with you. (you being me)

    So my bad fellow mags, my bad.

  18. #4293
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    Innovation doesn’t happen if we don’t try shit
    Thx for owning it and for trying in the first place

  19. #4294
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    yeah, true. Then again I think this setup - as proposed several times in this thread - is about as good a setup as one can get.

    My next foray will be to slightly tweak it

    Quote Originally Posted by doebedoe View Post
    My centering setup. Pretty simple and good enough.

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  20. #4295
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    Quote Originally Posted by kid-kapow View Post
    If any of you decided to create a tool like the one i suggested a few posts back (i deleted the post), then I would revisit the idea if I were you.

    The suggested tool was accurate at first, but then increasingly was not. So it was an ok idea, but it sadly did not hold up to use very well.

    leason identified: when making custom tools, try them for a bit before sharing so that you are sure that they hold up to use. The idea is to help fellow mags out, not have them jump into a rabbit hole together with you. (you being me)

    So my bad fellow mags, my bad.
    So, what happened? I've been using a variant of this for a few years with good results.

  21. #4296
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    it just was not precise enough - the clamping couldn't excert enough force / started slipping and the vertical parts weren't parallell (though, how I made the holes in the jaws was to blame for that part). I prob could've salvaged the design into something that was good enough, but I've since thought out a different design that I am keen to try, so tbc I guess.

    Mounted these today - jubilations - BMT for the win, aka what I do when I do not make a fuzz in the Moment thread (oh well). My main new tourer, a sidecountry pow setup and a pair for a good friend of mine (the shorter pair).
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  22. #4297
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    Who needs a tap? I have a couple spares. $15/shipped.

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    Do what you like, Like what you do.

  23. #4298
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    Quote Originally Posted by gwat View Post
    Who needs a tap? I have a couple spares. $15/shipped.

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    I'd love one, PM inbound.

  24. #4299
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    Quote Originally Posted by gregL View Post
    I go through G-Flex too fast for it to harden up, but you can usually soften up resin by heating it with a heat gun gently for a bit (I do this once in a while with my cheap Super Glue epoxy - just fire away at the plastic bottle). For filling holes that need some integrity I use the cut up shards of the fiberglass matt that comes with boat/shower stall repair kits.
    Yeah, I talking about storage for people who aren't in a shop environment that use their epoxy intermittently.
    Air, temperature differential and light will kill your epoxy. Properly stored, the epoxy should last years!

  25. #4300
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    Another successful session of mounting my own fucking skis. It's now a yearly ritual for me and I love it, even looking forward to it as part of the season start.

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