Helicoil or Remount Heelpiece?

ILLinoisance

ILLinoisance

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So, I landed on the deck on a cork 9, and the two front screws on one of my PX 12s pulled out from the ski. The two back mounting screws are still firmly in tact.

What do y'all suggest I do? Remount a cm or two forward or back, or helicoil the two holes that got the screws pulled out?

I've mounted bindings before and used helicoils on other things before, just never on a ski binding, so I'm not 100% sure how well they work or what option would be better.
 
See if a shop will let you watch when they do it, a six pack may convince them to let you observe how it's done. Get it professionally done though, especially if you're throwing 9's.
 
Sorry, and the shop will have to pull the toe off and see how bad it is, might have to remount if its really bad.
 
If the holes were damaged badly by the pullout, water damaged, etc you may not even want to attempt to heli coil it and just go for a remount to be safe. Heli coils need something solid to grip into.
 
Oh, I see. You said toe, so I thought you were saying to remount the toe piece.

Yeah, water got in there, no doubt about that. It was a slush day yesterday.

I'll probably bring it to a shop to get remounted or attempt it myself. The only "shop" close enough to me is Sportsauthority, and I trust myself more than them after the experiences I've had there.

Here's what I'm dealing with now:

2013-03-24
 
I thought you meant the toe pulled out, sorry! Yeah, if its the heel you're in luck, you may be able to remount and adjust the position without remounting the toe.
 
I'd just remount the heels 15 to 20mm forward. PX have a lot of rearward adjustment range, but check it yourself first to be sure.
 
Where they're mounted at right now, the heelpieces are almost maxed out in forward adjustment, so I have a lot of room to mount the heelpiece forward and slide the heel back to compensate.

Upon further inspection, I noticed a pretty bad delam right at the underfoot. Not sure if this was the cause or the effect of the pullout. I'm pretty sure it was the effect, though. Luckily I caught this while my brother was doing jet ski work and already had epoxy mixed up.

So, I put some epoxy in the old heelpiece holes and where it was delaminating, sandwiched the ski in between a couple of 2x4's, and I'm going to remount the heelpiece forward enough through a decent enough part of the topsheet after it all dries up tomorrow.

Here's a picture of the delam, the holes you can see are the ones that pulled out.

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if the delam is underfoot you may not be dealing with delam here. I took a disaster pretty hard last year and my back foot caught the kink, I looked in closer and the woot underfoot was very cracked and thats why the top sheet was separating.
 
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