Last year I broke a carbon fiber looking plate on my Tours, and the shop got Marker to hook me up with a new pair, despite being out of warranty, which was great. Older narrow patter, switched to the wider pattern, asked to go 1 cm back. On one of the skis, didn't quite make it 1 cm back.
Not real comfortable with this spacing. That figure 8 in the middle kind of sucks. I liked the original mount, and at this point, would have to go 1 cm forward, or 2 cm back. I have a better home for the tours, so I picked up some older Barons to re-use the original holes. Not too keen on moving the binding forward or putting a third set of holes in the skis, but that is an obvious option as well.
If I can put the narrow mount Barons safely in the original holes, I am back where I started, which was a happy place.
I figure filling the EPF holes with epoxy, JB weld or what have you on this ski (cham 97 w/metal) should be OK, except that middle hole.
If I understand the older Baron correctly, this middle screw should be snug, not tight. (I wonder if that's why the old Tours broke..)
My thoughts are to to use epoxy to fill half the figure 8, coat the screw with epoxy, snug it down, then back off slightly. It will thread in on the old threads, and in the figure 8 area the epoxy will create new threads.
I can also do an insert, but that widens the whole figure 8 thing. Also not sure the best way to go snug-not-tight with a machine screw and have it stay that way.
Or just say fuck it, and go a cm forward with the binding.
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