PSA: Mount your own fucking skis.

[dschane]

I use the folded paper origami method, but I always double check it. I'm a measure 10 times, cut once kinda guy.

And when you add the booze and candy factor, it can take more than a few mins. I picked up an old black diamond telemark jig on the cheap and now have the fanciest gizmo for making a center line.

[bigdude2468]

Being highly anal like many on this site I always check the ski center line even though I use a Jiga Rex. I have marked my Jiga Rex center line with a groove and marked it with fluorescent paint. I mount the jig and mark the center line of the ski on each end of the jig. I then measure from each side to confirm I am dead nuts in the middle. I did have an instance on one of my first mounts with the Jiga Rex where in eyeballing prior to drilling it did not look right, I could tell it was cockeyed. Loosened the jig and re tightened and it was good. I also learned that the graphics on skis are not always square and centered, don't go by how things just look, measure & measure again.

[PlayItLeo]

Mounted my own fucking skis. Again.



Dug out my OG 957s for retro steeze

[XXX-er]

Two questions, the first for T-ridge: what are you mounting that you can't find paper templates for?

And for XXX-er: $40 for a binding bit? You been shopping at the wrong places. Or has the $CAD slipped that much?

On the site it sez 20$ us for a bit , by the time you pay shipping to narthern Canada & exchange I would bet 40$

I could get a really nice Amarone for 40$ and just use the cork for the depth gauge

I use a t square to find the middle of the ski cuz this is just basic laypit

[HHTELE]

For some reason the Hammerheels went easy this time. Usually a vexing proposition,
OTOH, I am completely sober.
Probably a coincidence.

[Meadow Skipper]

On the site it sez 20$ us for a bit , by the time you pay shipping to narthern Canada & exchange I would bet 40$

Life behind the poutine curtain can be rough at times I guess. Vibes.

I could get a really nice Amarone for 40$ and just use the cork for the depth gauge

Win/win - $ saved/tasty buzz on.

For some reason the Hammerheels went easy this time. Usually a vexing proposition,
OTOH, I am completely sober.
Probably a coincidence.

Nice. Twentytwo Designs heelpieces work great but they are usually a total bitch to mount.

[skifishbum]

On the site it sez 20$ us for a bit , by the time you pay shipping to narthern Canada & exchange I would bet 40$

I could get a really nice Amarone for 40$ and just use the cork for the depth gauge

I use a t square to find the middle of the ski cuz this is just basic laypit

ill send ya a compliment of used bits for shipping and shuttle credit to be claimed when i finally haz enuffs $$$ yo afford to swing junk in them metalhead rivers

[Not Neil_Armstrong]

funny to see this post today as I'm mounting my Factions at lunch today at my office. DIY buttholes !

[Meadow Skipper]

ill send ya a compliment of used bits for shipping and shuttle credit to be claimed when i finally haz enuffs $$$ yo afford to swing junk in them metalhead rivers

Sometimes I just love this place.

[doebedoe]

Sometimes I just love this place.

I love the poetry of SFB.

I would like a sticker book of SFB's greatest quotes for all my skis/vans/associated gear.

[NW_SKIER]

I love the poetry of SFB.

I would like a sticker book of SFB's greatest quotes for all my skis/vans/associated gear.

#hughconwaymatters

[XXX-er]

Life behind the poutine curtain can be rough at times I guess. Vibes.


Win/win - $ saved/tasty buzz on.



Nice. Twentytwo Designs heelpieces work great but they are usually a total bitch to mount.

Well yeah getting shit couriered from web on the internet is a whole nother layer of cost/exchange/hassle but look at the up side

No Americans

[XXX-er]

ill send ya a compliment of used bits for shipping and shuttle credit to be claimed when i finally haz enuffs $$$ yo afford to swing junk in them metalhead rivers

well obviously I gotta meet you in person just to see if you talk like this in real life so deliver some of them bits in person and I will shutttle ya BUT new shit has come to light

Them trout unlimited fellas from Cali are 3 peat customers, I think they know how to fish, so they asked me to shuttle them up to the Morice which was a new thing for me this year, so that was 20$ fuel and 3 hrs of drving so I need like 80$ for that

BUT if you are into real dirtbag fishing what I would suggest to you is to go up and fish the Morice just out of Houston, you can camp at the Bymac site on the river for 10$ a nite probbaly you can scam a shuttle up to Aspen or even ride a bike, a tarp/ wall tent/ hipper killer stove would be awesume, its <10kms to Houston ...there were lots of other guys they doing the same thing

them Cali boys usually like the water between Quick and Telkwa but they REALLY liked the water between Aspen grove and Bymac and they caught lotsa steelies

[JRainey]

Hojis with speed rad toe and ATK raider heel.

[Meadow Skipper]

Well yeah getting shit couriered from web on the internet is a whole nother layer of cost/exchange/hassle but look at the up side

No Americans

True, but there are an awful lot of Canadians. And weird beer.

[2FUNKY]

Mounted these bad mofo's up. Protesting tomorrow!

[Doremite]

^nice work. Sweet looking set up. Matching boots putting it over the top of course.

[N1CK.]

Mounted these bad mofo's up. Protesting tomorrow!

Nice. Are those old or newer Protests? Where is the dimple, or where did you mount if none?

[2FUNKY]

Nice. Are those old or newer Protests? Where is the dimple, or where did you mount if none?

188 OG. No dimple. Went 102.5 straight pull from tip after reading the thread and standing on them for an hour adjusting the mark. Finally said fuck it and drilled them. Can't wait to ride them tomorrow.

[eskido]

Mounted these bad mofo's up. Protesting tomorrow!

SWEET!!! Your gonna be soooo f n stoked!!!

[N1CK.]

188 OG. No dimple. Went 102.5 straight pull from tip after reading the thread and standing on them for an hour adjusting the mark. Finally said fuck it and drilled them. Can't wait to ride them tomorrow.

I have the same 188s @ 101.5. I think you're gonna love those things.

[2FUNKY]

I have the same 188s @ 101.5. I think you're gonna love those things.

Your post and lightrangers as well as a few others is how I came up with the mount location. Stoked to ride them tomorrow. I've been eye balling the protest for several years and have always really like the shape.

[XXX-er]

True, but there are an awful lot of Canadians. And weird beer.

I know!

[TAFKALVS]

Mounted up some red bindings, should be really fast.

[klauss]

mounted some pivots for the first time after doing many salomons and a handful of other makes. I put the glue down in the holes bfore realizing I was out of my element with the pivot heels. I basically manhandled them into the holes as the brake stomp pad and back screws were not making things easy for me.

Got em on, but could not have been by the book. Anyone recall where a tutorial on the pivot heels is to see it done correctly?