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How close have people put new holes to pre existing quiver killers? It seems I should be able to go fairly close but looking for those with experience before drilling. Looks like it’ll be 7mm center of quiver killed mount to center of new hole.
PSA: Mount your own fucking skis.
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altacoup
How close have people put new holes to pre existing quiver killers? It seems I should be able to go fairly close but looking for those with experience before drilling. Looks like it’ll be 7mm center of quiver killed mount to center of new hole.
Too close. The inserts themselves are like 7-8mm in outer diameter? They’ll be touching.
10mm center to center is the general rule of thumb for normal screws, and 15mm for inserts. I’d feel comfortable doing 10mm, particularly if it’s a ski with a metal top sheep or really hard wood core, and/or you’re 10mm from a normal plugged hole (not another insert).
Re the discussion about mounting the toe with one screw then drilling the other 3… Yall been smoking too much? That is Introducing so much more room for the toe piece to shift and be off-angle when you’re taking the boot in/out. Even if it doesn’t shift, there’s enough slop and tolerance in the bindings front to back that it’s more likely that you will think everything is square and aligned, but the toe is really actually a few degrees off angle. Particularly because on most toe pieces you cannot access all of holes with the boot in it to mark them. Also a terrible idea on alpine boots because locking in the heel will put too much forward pressure on the single toe screw, maybe on pin bindings it’s fine, but that doesn’t fix the alignment issues.
Just be careful to align the front and rear piece of paper very parallel/collinear (use a ruler to check the lines), tape the front and rear paper templates together across the whole width top and bottom so the two paper pieces cannot pivot relative to one another.
Carefully line the template centered on the ski (I used a square wood block against the ski edges and a ruler across the top, finding the center of the ski based off the base width, not the top sheet.
Use a center punch and manually (by hand) make a divot for all 16 holes in the ski top sheet through the paper. It’s not hard to do, even on wood veneer skis. Then I take a hammer and make the divot bigger (never use the hammer first).
Then you can hand drill, use a drill press has a guide block, whatever and drill your holes
I’ve mounted at least 80 pairs of skis this way, half of those for inserts. Never once been crooked or had any alignment issues.
I will say shop jigs are way more likely to have the (whole binding) crooked or 2-3mm off center. I’ve bought a lot of skis with previous mounts that very off
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PinyonJuniper5
Does anyone have a PDF template for the Plum Race 150 (no adjustment track)? I’ve dug around online quite a bit and can’t find one
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Per SkiMo:
Plum Race 99/120/135/145/15030 x 26.520.5 x 26
Tell me:
-confirm the above hole patterns
-your BSC & BSL after measuring them
-where the rear toe holes are relative to your BSC and pins
-where the forward heel holes are relative to your BSC and boot heel
Check out thread on DIY Binding Templates
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...d.php?t=330792
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