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12-03-2018, 04:16 PM #2401Registered User
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Three in two skis,
one in the toe-piece front right and on the same ski one in the heelpiece back left. Other ski also heelpiece back left.
actually I doubt that it will rip... I just have no experience and did not want to faceplant right away.
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12-03-2018, 04:55 PM #2402
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12-03-2018, 06:21 PM #2403Registered User
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12-03-2018, 08:44 PM #2404
Is bamboo bamboo. Meaning the quality of wood used for chopsticks and bbq skewers equal to that of ski cores — fine to plug and drill away??
Uno mas
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12-03-2018, 08:52 PM #2405
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12-03-2018, 09:44 PM #2406
Anybody able to help me find the template for Salomon MTN tech bindings?
Posts about guardians and sth-997s are all I can find.
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12-03-2018, 11:13 PM #2407
The chopsticks is perfect for me with a dye. tried skewers they didn't work too good. too skinny even if you don't run em through a dye (for me anyway). Were swimming in epoxy.
Unmerited but I am more confident in the "nice" free chopsticks over the 100 for $1 skewers. Laughing at that. They do seem like they have higher relative density vs the BBQ skewers, which often have those loose slivers
Anecdotal but the chopsticks have sharper ridges than my oak dowels after the dye
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12-04-2018, 07:00 AM #2408AF
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12-04-2018, 07:49 AM #2409Registered User
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12-04-2018, 11:19 AM #2410
I’m missing some screws that came with my pivot 14s. How do I determine what screws to buy to replace them?
Another thought I had is... does the screw size needed differ for each ski or is it simply based on the binding? I feel like since each ski gets drilled with different drill bit dimensions the screw sizes would differ per ski.
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12-04-2018, 11:21 AM #2411Registered User
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12-04-2018, 11:32 AM #2412
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12-04-2018, 12:21 PM #2413Registered User
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it depends on your religion, chopsticks/ dowel/ BBq skewers/ steel wool/ FG strands, I believe any piece of wood you put in there will have the grain going at 90degrees to what the wood grain runs in a ski runs or have no grain at all, does that matter, does any of it still impart strength, I don't know I am not a materials guy but it looks funny to me so I just don't go there
I believe that whatever you put in the holes is more about plugging the hole to keep moisture out of the core than making the ski good as new, I believe that if you put too many holes across a ski you cut the cores/grain of the wood so it will break more easily in that spot and or the screws will pull out , people have had it work, people have had it fail maybe cuz people do all kinds of shitty work but best-practice is don't put any holes closer than 1cm
I've tried golf tees, shaving them down to fit was tedious also a pack of golf tees is more expensive/ harder to find than BBq skewers which i can pickup in any food store for cheaper and they fit perfect
I tried dowel stock from the HW store and I didnt get the size close enough cuz the gorilla glue expanded over night and spit them all out on top of the ski it was a funny fail
The shops have to be quick and look neat so they don't have time to fuck around waiting for epoxy to cure so they just bang in a buch of plugs in a couple of minutes
so the answer : it depends on your religion, and do you feel lucky punkLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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12-04-2018, 12:35 PM #2414Registered User
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yeah and how often do people ask the same stupid questions ferinstance
how close can i put binding holes ?
what do i plug binding holes with ?
JUST don't get me started on people who leave info out, who can't write a fucking technical document if their lives depended on it, who impart info the same way their wife might ... after the fact " well I didn't mean that "Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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12-04-2018, 01:09 PM #2415
PSA: Mount your own fucking skis.
On this point I feel differently. Hardwood and epoxy is strong as hell. Golf tees and gorilla glue, less so. I wouldn't use golf tees and certainly not gorilla glue. Gorilla glue is good at some things but it dries extremely porous -- not good.
I think if the goal is waterproofing you can plug with anything, just be sure to do it. Go nuts and put some wood glue on top and while ugly, it'll be perfect.
Skis are held together with epoxy. When you have a core that is more than one wood type, the slabs are held with epoxy. Cores are rarely one solid piece of wood.
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I'll keep experimenting by mounting on top of old holes for everyone. And everyone, keep selling me your skis on their third mount for cheap
I should add my stance is financially motivated. I'm cheap and hard on gear. I figure cost of 3 pairs of used skis, inserts, and 1 pair of bindings = Cost of 1 new pair of skis and binders shop mounted.
My 2c
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12-04-2018, 01:25 PM #2416
Anyone have BF inserts or the insert tool lying around they'd sell me? I broke the nubs off the tool and IMO it works better than anything else
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12-04-2018, 02:12 PM #2417Registered User
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Some questions as a first timer:
I laid out and center punched my skis last night from a paper template, but one of them had something funky going on. I could use a little advice. Here's what I did, and what happened:
To find the ski center line I clamped a calipers across the ski (to get a proper right angle) and then measured with a centered ruler. I did this in 5 or 6 spots down the ski and connected the marks with straight edge. After that I double-checked the ski center by wrapping the centered ruler to the edges. The boot center line was screen printed on the ski but only about an inch long, so I used a piece of tape to extend it to the edges. The paper template fit perfectly for one ski, and I used a center punch to mark the drill spots.
When I got to the second ski, though, I couldn't get the template to align with both the boot center line and the ski center line. What I finally came around to thinking was that the screen printed boot center line wasn't at a right angle to the ski center line (tough to actually measure as I didn't have a protractor handy), so I aligned the template with the ski center and the center point of the boot center line and punched the drill locations.
Is it normal for a screen printed boot center line to be off by a few degrees? It seems like an easy mistake to make in manufacturing. What's the best way for me to go back and double-check to make sure I didn't somehow screw up the alignment on that second ski? I'm about 90% sure it's fine, but I'd hate to get them mounted only to find my binding pointing cock-eyed. Any help is appreciated.
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12-04-2018, 02:21 PM #2418
You have it right. Measure from the edges, tape pull from tip/tail to verify boot centerline(s), ignore graphics.
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12-04-2018, 02:41 PM #2419
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12-04-2018, 02:47 PM #2420
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12-04-2018, 03:15 PM #2421
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12-04-2018, 03:24 PM #2422
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12-04-2018, 04:01 PM #2423Registered User
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Skis have been known to come with the boot center mark off usually fore/aft , the thing to do is measure both skls from tail to the ski center mark to check if they are both the same, sometimes on a popular ski you can find the exact distance in cms posted somwhere by a pro or e-mail the mfger and ask, IME this is the openning step to mounting a binding
I like using a t-square to draw any lines on painters tape for layout, for any measurment I measure from one edge then measure from the other edge, for the ski cneter the lines are usually at a very slight angle to one another cuz ski edges are not straight due to sidecut so split the difference to draw a line that is 90 degrees to the ski center line, I also twice measure from ski edge either way to find points and do accurate measurement
I never use those flacid paper templates i just use the boot & binding for the mounting process but you somehow want to check the template to make sure the printer you used to print the template is at the correct size, some of the templates have a scale you can measure with a ruler or use the binding
go slow drink coffee, some drink beer but IME it takes too long/too many beers to mount a fixed heel binding without a professional jig and the accuracy/quality may suffer
This ^^ is not true for tele cuz I can mount half a binding in 2 beers,
in any case it would be impossible to tell if a tele mount is fucked upLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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12-04-2018, 05:39 PM #2424Registered User
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I did a plywood test mount the other day, so I'm confident the templates are good. The boot center marks were in the same spot fore and aft on the skis, too. Mostly I'm worried that I somehow screwed up the ski's center line and have that second ski marked out of center/parallel. I'm going to repeat the whole process on that one tonight to triple-check things before drilling...This is what happens when you move to a town without a reliable shop.
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12-04-2018, 06:27 PM #2425
All you need is a screw and jam nut for installs and removals (should be two nuts on the image):
Best regards, Terry
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