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11-13-2019, 08:28 PM #1Registered User
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Difference in left/right binding mounting?
I bought some boots from a ski shop and I got a free mount. So I had them mount the Kingpins on a pair of BC Noctas. Looks like karma of not mounting my own fucking skis came back to bite me and they mounted the left binding on the right ski and the right binding on the left ski. I don't think there a left and a right kingpin or a left and a right ski on the nocta, but when adjusting the din, do they adjust the right/left ski differently? I assume not
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11-13-2019, 08:31 PM #2
How do you know what binding is left and what binding is right???
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11-13-2019, 08:31 PM #3
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11-13-2019, 08:33 PM #4Registered User
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11-13-2019, 08:33 PM #5
Is there crack involved in this story?
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11-13-2019, 08:34 PM #6Registered User
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11-13-2019, 08:36 PM #7
Lots of shops tweak the DIN on each binding so they release at the same torque values. Boot wear and differences in the springs can make them release slightly off their indicated DIN is what I’ve been told.
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11-13-2019, 08:36 PM #8
Difference in left/right binding mounting?
Ski switch.??..
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11-13-2019, 08:42 PM #9
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11-13-2019, 08:45 PM #10
I wouldn’t ski them. Post in gear swap and explain this again.
I might be a buyer tho - 190cm?
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11-13-2019, 08:55 PM #11
I once had a student show up for lessons wearing two left boots. Rental shop FAIL! Never did find the other kid out in the hill wearing two right boots.
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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11-13-2019, 09:11 PM #12
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11-13-2019, 09:18 PM #13
I run a shop. Some liability insurance companies want you to label L & R skis to make sure they both get setup and tested rather than one getting tested twice. As far as I am aware, there is not a single normed boot on the market that doesn’t have a symmetrical interface with the bindings. In other words, feel free to swap skis unless your skis themselves aren’t symmetrical.
Also, it’s not out of the ordinary to have your bindings set differently. The indicators are really just a rough starting point, and we set the bindings to release at the same torque value regardless of what the indicator says(within reason of course)
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11-13-2019, 09:21 PM #14
There is the faint possibility that the shop DIN tested the bindings with a proper machination,
and hence, with great accuracy and much aplomb and zeal,
determined that the right and left bindings calibrated differently for DIN settings.
Then, by stroke of luck, and with much emphatic zeal,
indicated which binding had what DIN calibrations,
by marking them, with a removable sticker, as
LEFT and RIGHT.
Now, perchance did they give you a form indicating that the bindings were calibrated and tested?
That form, rarely obtained from any but the best shops, does show DIN settings adjustment for
Left Toe, Right Toe, Left Heel, Right Heel.
It happens.
This could be the culprit.
I'm just taking a wild guess.
GOOD LUCK
In which case, all that matters is that the bindings are properly calibrated
but it doesn't actually matter what ski they get put on, as long as you remember which is which,
when you perhaps might want to change the DIN in the future.
Because they probably set your bindings up correctly, but as we knows,
DIN 16 to DIN 18 is the only truly viable settings for
ultimate retention.
Now, if the DIN is the same setting on both bindings,
then it really doesn't matter unless,
there really are left and right handed bindings.
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But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
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11-13-2019, 09:25 PM #15
The short answer is, i'm pretty sure you're gonna die...
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Some day.
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In the meantime, go skiing and don't overthink it.
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11-13-2019, 09:32 PM #16OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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11-13-2019, 09:33 PM #17
Neither the Kingpins nor the Noctas are left-right specific, regardless of what's printed on the ski, but I have seen cases where the tech toe fittings are molded in slightly off-axis on one boot and only align correctly on one ski of the pair.
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11-13-2019, 09:40 PM #18
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11-13-2019, 09:51 PM #19
Just ski switch. Duh!
These recent binding threads have to be trolls right? Or are people really this stupid here?
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11-13-2019, 10:42 PM #20
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11-13-2019, 11:14 PM #21
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