Binding jig - wide ski adapter - tutorial

**El Chupacabra** · 11-10-2011, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by F#*k You Cat

not sure if this has been covered....

Just bend - dremmel - hack saw skinny ski clamp points off
Use a digital caliper to center the jig on wide skis.
clamp it with c-clamps - tension clamps

Drill

this works!!!!

can post pics of my (solly Jig) later

Kevin

^^ This is what I ended up using most of the time, until I managed to find a wide Salomon jig, and sold my flattened-out skinny Salomon jig to F*Cat.

The wide Look jig only goes up to about 105mm underfoot, so I haven't been mounting Look bindings much in the last few years.

I never was able to get the bracket/extension doohickeys to work out accurately enough for me. I tried a couple of different brackets, and they all flexed too much: my test drillings were off-center.

**~mikey b** · 10-09-2012, 05:08 PM

bump for a current project

**axebiker** · 10-10-2012, 07:41 AM

I've done this to 4 jigs. Works great. The only issue I've run into is that sometimes the jig sits high enough that the bit doesn't get all the way down, so you have to take it off and finish it.

**AlpiNord** · 10-10-2012, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by axebiker

I've done this to 4 jigs. Works great. The only issue I've run into is that sometimes the jig sits high enough that the bit doesn't get all the way down, so you have to take it off and finish it.

Get longer bits. FTR, longer stepped drill bits are available. I'd be a little worried about inherent additive inaccuracies as a result of higher distance off the skis. Have you used your jigs with inserts (tighter tolerances) or binding screws only?

**counterfeitfake** · 10-10-2012, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by Alpinord

Get longer bits.

I just got some spam with this very line!

**axebiker** · 10-10-2012, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Alpinord

Get longer bits. FTR, longer stepped drill bits are available. I'd be a little worried about inherent additive inaccuracies as a result of higher distance off the skis. Have you used your jigs with inserts (tighter tolerances) or binding screws only?

Just binding screws so far. I'm a bit anal, so I punch the layout first, measure, re-punch, and then drill. I haven't really done anything with inserts to date.

Yeah - I did get longer bits, but just a word of caution to those planning on doing this.