Mounting Volant Skis With No Riser and other clueless jong inquiries

I am the new owner of some never-been-drilled 188 Chubbs. At some point the risers seem to have made a bid for freedom; they didn’t come with the skis.

What’s the play here? Grind down screws and mount direct to ski? DIY riser from a plastic cutting board?

Other than that - planning to punch holes in the topsheet before drilling based on some old threads I found here. I’m ready to roach some drill bits on the stainless topsheet. What else do I need to know? Do I need a proper tap or can I do a ghetto tap with a binding screw I don’t care about? Did these have a recommended boot canter mount point? Halp

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Since no one has replied. Any Volant steel has to be tapped. The stainless topsheet is brutal.<br />
Wow. Chubs are unicorns. Machete and of course spatulas. But cool. Tap and drill.</p>

Real tap for sure. Do half a turn, back it out, half a turn more, tap the full 3 1/2 turns. Binding screw will just strip. Drill slowly, use coolant. Without the riser, good luck on the midsole mark. Hopefully someone can chime in. I wouldn't grind screws, you're not going to clean up the tip well enough to screw cleanly in to the steel topsheet. Pretty sure the riser is 1/8" (3mm but in freedom units)easy enough to get some ABS plastic from the hardware store. I hope you like them, as a former volant dealer I am grateful every day that I haven't drilled a pair in over a decade.

Serious question— why even mount them?

If I had a twenty-five year old, unmounted ski of any kind I’d drive straight to the resort and ask all the hotels who wants it for their wall.

What are you going to do— ski it on Gaper Day, laugh over beers, and then throw it in your garage for a decade of death?

Display those things.


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I&#39;ve got a half dozen pair of old Chubbs kickin&#39; around as lawn ornaments. Give me a week to get home and i&#39;ll see if the 190&#39;s I have still have the mount plate with ski center mark.
Are you sure you have 188s and not 190s? Maybe there was a difference in length between regular Chubb and the model I have, the Ti Chubbs?