PSA: Mount your own fucking skis.

[spanky]

I fucked up again. I was rushing and ended up drilling off-center. The holes are less than 1cm away from where they should be. I tried filling in with some JBWeld MarineWeld (claims to be drillable) mixed with chopped up fiberglass mat. When I went to drill the new holes, it just busted through the epoxy. I think maybe there were air bubbles, I tried my best to pack the epoxy in well but it didn't want to stay in with the glass making it thick. Is there any fix for this? I'd rather not go forward or back because l already have the other ski mounted correctly.

Maybe consider a different binding with a hole pattern that doesn’t overlap (if it exists)?

[XXX-er]

I fucked up again. I was rushing and ended up drilling off-center. The holes are less than 1cm away from where they should be. I tried filling in with some JBWeld MarineWeld (claims to be drillable) mixed with chopped up fiberglass mat. When I went to drill the new holes, it just busted through the epoxy. I think maybe there were air bubbles, I tried my best to pack the epoxy in well but it didn't want to stay in with the glass making it thick. Is there any fix for this? I'd rather not go forward or back because l already have the other ski mounted correctly.

best practise that would definalty work is move the mount 1 cm and is probably what I would do, suggest going slow, drink coffee to stay totally alert ... as opposed to beer with a fentynal chaser

helicoil or sft might work but its hard to say without looking

easiest would be drilling it out, epoxy in hardwood dowel, re-drill, cross fingers

a whole shwack of campers recently suggested it was ok to use only epoxy in holes but as you pointed out its really hard to get the air bubbles out , IMO epoxy is used to hold repair material which IS the machinable part so i wouldn't trust that machinable bs

the original epoxy/ FG hack was possibly mine but that was to fix a spinner, not to drill screw holes into

[EWG]

Heyya - tagging on. I'm mounting up these Redeemers and trying to find a mount that works with the old holes. Is the current consensus still that the new holes needs to be 1 cm away from the old ones CENTER to CENTER? Or is it edge to edge? Center to center works pretty well. Edges will be tough.

[XXX-er]

I would be alright with center 2 center and I'm the nay sayer around here

[rudy]

Forgot to take the in progress pic but end result came out nicely

[EWG]

Tognar took the old plates back and sent out correct ones, which I got in time for my second set I was mounting with Attacks. Here are the two mounts.

The Whitedots are the ones beaterdit passed along. Thanks man!

[dgilligan02]

I still kind of regret not snagging some Dots when they were the darling of Sierra clearance years back.

[fleaches]

Couple of mounts from the last few weeks:

HL C132 with Alpinists

Dynafit blacklight pro with trav gara titans

Used MottN's 3d printed jig which works great, centering is dead on and for touring bindings the heel drops right into the pins without messing with the toe alignment. Recommend if you have a printer.

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[Lord Thomas]

Need a template for a Look Rockerace heel. Whoever has one, give it up. Two new pair of clamp here that need to mate with some skis

[dcpnz]

Need a template for a Look Rockerace heel. Whoever has one, give it up. Two new pair of clamp here that need to mate with some skis

I doubt there is one floating around anywhere since look says they should only be mounted to race plates.
Be happy to measure holes on an R22 plate for you if you want but not sure what that’ll do better than measuring the heel that you already have

[ApexSkua]

You can see where I unsuccessfully tried to drill and busted out the epoxy on the upper hole.

I successfully taped and used 1/4-20 nylon screws as fillers on such fuck ups. See if you can use the binding and a bushing(hose) on the drill bit to re-drill. Those nylon screws are surprisingly tough.

What binding, and how many holes even up being "challenged"?

STH2, and all of them.

best practise that would definalty work is move the mount 1 cm and is probably what I would do, suggest going slow, drink coffee to stay totally alert ... as opposed to beer with a fentynal chaser

helicoil or sft might work but its hard to say without looking

easiest would be drilling it out, epoxy in hardwood dowel, re-drill, cross fingers

a whole shwack of campers recently suggested it was ok to use only epoxy in holes but as you pointed out its really hard to get the air bubbles out , IMO epoxy is used to hold repair material which IS the machinable part so i wouldn't trust that machinable bs

the original epoxy/ FG hack was possibly mine but that was to fix a spinner, not to drill screw holes into

Seems like moving the mount or getting another set of clamps is the best option here. Oh well, lesson learned I suppose

[XXX-er]

Seems like moving the mount or getting another set of clamps is the best option here. Oh well, lesson learned I suppose

the easiest thing might be to leave the good ski and move the bad mount, YES a mismatched mount

A few years ago very early season my buddy hits a stump touring on the ski runs at low tide, we couldn't find his tech toe piece in the pow so buddy goes back in May & finds that toe piece

his K2 was a pulled out & delamed so i injected the ski with slow set thru a binding screw hole and clamp it, a couple days later I moved the toe piece by a cm or maybe it was 2 forward on the ski

so I asked buddy if i should move the binding on the other ski and he said don't bother,

when I asked him later how it skied bro sez he ( good skier) could not tell the difference and the fix was good

[1000-oaks]

Recently picked up a pair of minty pow skis on Craiglist, and noticed that the shop (Doc's Ski Haus, which is no more) had stripped a hole when mounting the bindings, so they jammed in a second screw to wedge the first screw in the hole, and never told the guy, lol. He took them heli and cat skiing several times, even a trip to Japan. Wow, glad the ghetto fix held.

[Meadow Skipper]

^

[ASmileyFace]

I've seen a lot of shit come out of shops but that blows my mind. Going to have to keep that in mind for a mid mission fix lol

[EWG]

Holy crap.

[Shorty_J]

Recently picked up a pair of minty pow skis on Craiglist, and noticed that the shop (Doc's Ski Haus, which is no more) had stripped a hole when mounting the bindings, so they jammed in a second screw to wedge the first screw in the hole, and never told the guy, lol. He took them heli and cat skiing several times, even a trip to Japan. Wow, glad the ghetto fix held.

This is why this thread exists.

I've fucked up a couple of mounts and had to fix them, but at least I know what I did to fix it and what to watch for in the future in terms of "it's about to fail".

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[ApexSkua]

the easiest thing might be to leave the good ski and move the bad mount, YES a mismatched mount

Very interesting. I will try it for the sake of experimentation.

[Shorty_J]

Very interesting. I will try it for the sake of experimentation.

I would try that with demo bindings before you redrill a ski... but that's just me.

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[bovine]

I picked up the 188 Merlin IVs from goodwill the other day--they're in pretty good shape, and most importantly, the piezo blinkly lights still light up when you flex the skis! They were mounted at like, -6 from the line with a pair of maker 8.1 SC (that's select control for the uninitiated) death traps, about which Ski Magazine wrote this nice little piece:


"By manipulating flex, Marker’s Selective Control (SC) shifter transforms a single ski into a quiver.

Position 1 is designed to have little or no influence on the ski’s personality: It gives the ski a free-floating sensation meant for slow speeds, soft snow and moguls, where tips need to float over the bumps.

Position 2, the Logic1’s default setting, is best for everyday use on groomed surfaces. It feels natural and strong, especially at the end of high-speed turns, where the ski slices back out of the fall line with no sense of deceleration. Position 3 is the most powerful setting Marker has ever offered. The edge engagement is incredible. Racers and All-Mountain Experts will click to 3, then mount a search-and-destroy mission on ice and hardpack."

Almost as brilliant as keyhole technology.

Anyways those went in the trash, I moved the plastic 977s off the extremes on to the Merlins, and then the metal-er 977s went on the extremes. I ski the extremes a couple times a year, these Merlins look like they might be a fun spring groomer zoomer.

If it’s blinking, it’s thinking!- I used to sell Merlins in Taos-back in the day[emoji4]



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[half-fast]

I had a pair of the marker sc’s on volkl combo race skis-p40s? Couldn’t really tell the difference between the settings

[1000-oaks]

I've seen a lot of shit come out of shops but that blows my mind. Going to have to keep that in mind for a mid mission fix lol

And this was a shop in Santa Monica that priced gear at MSRP + 20% 'cuz swanky location. Guy probably paid double the Mammoth rate for that mount (on brand new Lotus 138's).

[waveshello]

If it’s blinking, it’s thinking!- I used to sell Merlins in Taos-back in the day[emoji4]



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I remember reading about the piezo vibration dampening tech in Boys Life when I was probably 13 or 14. I thought it was very cool then--it seemed very futuristic. No way that tiny blinkly led can dissapate a perceptible amount of energy tho, which makes it perfect ski tech gimmickery.

I had a pair of the marker sc’s on volkl combo race skis-p40s? Couldn’t really tell the difference between the settings

Yes... seemed pretty dubious to me, so I did some investigating when I stripped them off. It's supposed to alter the ski flex, but the mechanism in the biding would be incapable of doing that unless the ski was flexed in to an extreme arc, and then difference would be imperceptible because the mechanism is chinsy plastic and would offer almost no resistance to flex in any of the three settings.

Ski gear companies are the worst when it comes to marketing tech-y junk. Does any other sports industry do it so shamelessly?

[pfluffenmeister]

And this was a shop in Santa Monica that priced gear at MSRP + 20% 'cuz swanky location. Guy probably paid double the Mammoth rate for that mount (on brand new Lotus 138's).

Double the screws, double the price!

[lucknau]

Coupla remounts for gripwalk compatibility (really just want to show off my babies).



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