Well, I finished laying out my marks to mount freerides on some of Mntlions Heli daddies and found that the existing holes conflict with the freeride holes.
Due to the length of the freerides and the beta lobes on the atomics, I'm pretty limited with placement.
Mounting on Mntlions recommended line leaves me too close on the front holes, but can come forward 1cm and be safe on the toe piece. Unfortunately, this leaves me with the single rear screw on the fr's right between 2 of the old holes and at the back of binding: | o o o | = not good.
I've got room to come another 1-2cm's forward, but this starts to put boot center quite a ways forward. This still leaves me ~3cm's back from chord center on the ski, though.
My concern is getting too far forward for the soft tips and stiff middle/tail on these skis.
Any advice?
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Thread: Heli Daddy Mount ?
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11-09-2005, 10:07 AM #1
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Heli Daddy Mount ?
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11-09-2005, 10:31 AM #2
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| o o o | = fine
if you are super worried about that one hole, drill it w/ a 3.5 bit and screw 'er in by hand.
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11-09-2005, 10:46 AM #3
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Hope you don't mind me picking your brain a little more, Marshall.
You wouldn't be worried about those three holes lined up across the rear of the binding with the plate acting as a lever? To me it just looked like a textbook shear point.
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11-09-2005, 10:52 AM #4
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i assume that the holes you are refering to are the rear holes of sally demo's? i have for sure put many fr's in the exact location and none have ever (yet) ripped out. if you were mounting some crappy fiberglass topsheet rental ski, i would be concerned, but the metal in those atomics is fairly thick, and the heel hole pattern on the FR's is close together, so unless you don't tighten the forward 2 holes of the heel, there is no moment. if you are really worried about it, then fill the old holes w/ steel wool and epoxy to make it more structurally sound.
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11-09-2005, 11:34 AM #5
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I'm interested in this as well as I'm going to be doing the same thing with a pair of heli daddies
For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was
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11-09-2005, 01:06 PM #6
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FYI: I liked to ski the HD 2+cm back of center for alpine. When I sent them up for my 295mm boot I move the heel all the way back on the track and then more the toe back to that point.
PH: why mot use the alpine holes, ski them, find your happy place and then pick up the drill?
I have bindings you can demo if needed
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11-09-2005, 01:42 PM #7
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I've kind of found that where I mount them is more decided by the existing holes and the fritschi footprint than where I'd want to be. The length of the binding doesn't leave much fore and aft movement available to stay inside the beta lobe thingy's. (That, and I've already filled the existing holes
Originally Posted by mntlion
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I'm comfortable with the position, just don't like seeing those 3 holes all in a line across the ski like that. Something about not wanting to have one break 10km's from the nearest road. Of course, I'm a big wimp and don't huck anyway, so it's likely not an issue.
Are you talking 2cm's back of the boot center point you gave me, or back of the ski center? Cause 2cm's back of the ski center would take the existing holes out of the play and render this all moot.
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