![]() Pat showed up with a couple of pairs of boards, one devoid of bindings and he proceeded to quickly switch them over while squatting on the floor of my flat. One of my long time friends and guide buddy, Pat Ormond, who came to visit me in Chamonix during some downtime while guiding the Haute Route and Ortler Traverse last spring turned me onto some cool ski gadgetry that I've been thinking about ever since - binding inserts. I encourage everyone to pay a visit to the site but be prepared with your credit card as a frenzy of product acquisition will likely follow if you're anything like me. In addition to carrying everything you need to develop your World Cup tuning chops, Terry has a blog with detailed instructions and videos to get most of the tasks done. I want to give a serious shout out to Terry at for carrying everything I need to obsess over the condition of my boards and being willing to give free advice on my many lame quesitons. I bought a condo recently with a heated garage so I'm no longer doing the deed in my living room. For someone as OCD as me, ski tuning is extremely fun and satisfying. In spite of my ice climbing adventures, skiing is what a truly love so I've been busy doing skiing related things like buying elaborate ski tuning equipment and learing how to really dial in my quiver. ![]() That's a good thing for the people I work with. But the arrival of the a real winter storm and cold temps, "grumpy Brian" was replaced with "hopeful/psyched Brian". Fun but seems so much scarier and dangerous than skiing. The telling indicator is that I'm ice climbing again. Truth be told, it's been snowing plenty above 2,500 feet but the more common haunts have been hurting. Just get those.Įdit to add: with bindings like the shift and tecton the added benefit of a deadicated resort/touring binding is reduced significantly.Mat enjoying his new distractionWell, January 22nd came and the snow finally started falling in South Central AK. You work in a shop, skis and bindings are cheap. In the morning you’ll be too hungover/tired/whatever to do it, and now your friends are waiting for you or you brought the wrong set up. You will undoubtably forget to do this multiple nights because you’re tired, customers are shit heads, your third girlfriend this month just broke up with you, you didn’t get lunch, you want to the bar, you forgot your skis/bindings/whatever, or you told yourself you’ll do it in the morning. You have to remember to change the screws the day/night before. Alpine binders for resort skiing and tech for tours. I would change the binders in the shop the day before. Can you elaborate on the difficulty of use? I can see it being annoying when your trying to change bindings after your tour ascent. ![]() I am aware that the resale value if gonna be shit but I wouldnt plan on selling my skis so I am not worried about that. SupersquidI work at a ski shop so installing them is very similar to installing helicoils. Also, always use the locktite dampening stuff. Binding freedom has a full list of bindings with required screw lengths/types and you can buy them all through their online shop. They have a knurled area on bottom of head to better lock binding in place. Bindings screws heads are a match for ski binding screws just threads are 5mm S.S. I had a company here that only sells screws for western WA confirm it by visual inspection. My presumption looking at Quivers screw is that they are off the shelf stainless. SLIDEWRIGHT.COM has good info on the proper screw sizes. WahsegaWas adjusting length for my son to try the Liberty ski's. SupersquidI assume you needed to change binding length because you had a different boot or friend with a different boot was using the ski? Or was this just when you needed to change bindings? What combination of binders are you using? I assume you needed to change binding length because you had a different boot or friend with a different boot was using the ski? Or was this just when you needed to change bindings? What combination of binders are you using?Īlso, what screw heads? do you need to use a different screw in the quivers than the screws that come with your bindings from the factory? So check the clearances before installing if you want to adjust the binding length. However Binding Freedom uses Posi Drive screws whose heads match what regular screws came with your bindings: flat head, small head, or low head screw. This small added head height blocked the binding from moving. The cause was that Quivers use a pan head screw to install the bindings. However this weekend when I went to adjust the rear binding I couldn't. I like Quiver better then Binding Freedom as the slot in Freedom's for the screwdriver has the potential to let water in of not sealed with epoxy. ![]() WahsegaI used Quiver Killers in 3 skis: 4FRNT's Click and Switchblade, and Liberty Variant 87. ![]()
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