Inserts for binding mounting, like Reactors...

Scottness

Scottness

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Has anyone put their own inserts in (epoxy) so that they can remove the bindings and use them on multiple skis? I have heard of a few people doing this with snowboard binding inserts. The ski industry is waaay behind in this area. Anybody done it? Can you give me some tips, where to buy, etc.? Thanks.
 
you could get heli coils put in on all your skis. is that what your talking about?
 
Not really, what I'm talking about is like the Line Reactors. Or using snowboard inserts and screws. Epoxy the inserts in and then all you have to do is crew your bindings in, and unscrew them out.
 
it would be a good thing. shame all the big companies are all so fucking greedy and make us buy seperate bindings for all our skis.
 
The best bet is just buy the Line reactor binding and then their is an adapter you can buy from them called the freedom plate. so then all you have to do is mount the freedom plate on your skis ..so then you can use the reactor binding on all of your skis!
 
maybe have inserts that are threaded inside and out, so you would screw them into the ski and glue them, and then screw the binding into the inserts. You guys follow what I'm saying?
 
Telemark ski's are starting to get it, Ive had it done to fugatives but not purposely. I ripped my bindings out so they heli coiled them , they lasted for a fay days then i ripped the coils out. Guess im to Gnar to have them again.
 
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Something like this maybe?
 
Well you can repaire the base of your skis and they are cut into different pieces to begin with...so just cut out a part of your base and drill a hole and counter sink it and put those nuts that have a washer on one ended and teeth in there then re epoxy your bases and wax that shit up....I will have to find some shitty old skis sometime and try to figure something out
 
maybe have inserts that are threaded inside and out, so you would screw them into the ski and glue them, and then screw the binding into the inserts. You guys follow what I'm saying?

uhhhh, exactly. that's what i'm talking about now. but we'd have to use shorter screws than snowboards.
 
many other people have done this type of thing and it hardly ever works....it needs to be done when the ski is manufactured....Line does it obviously, but K2 also does it for there telemark skis, and all snowboard companies do it...it is only a matter of time...maybe
 
i like the idea a lot, just have the shop put in these threaded bolts so you can switch up bindings for your multiple sticks
 
I don't see why it wouldn't work, the threaded insert would be larger than the screws usually used to mount bindings, I think that would be less prone to tearing out of the ski.
 
what would be needed is a standardized mounting pattern for bindings, otherwise the inserts would only work for a certain brand of binding
 
The large hole weakens the ski and coming directly from people with experience....every ski has broken at the hole after some use...I say go for...I wish I had some old skis just lying around...if I did I would try it...but I would use T-nuts like thedo when they fix a snowboard....you have to make sure and seal it really well with epoxy so water does not get in and trash the core
 
it would be sweet if you could get one pair of bindings for yourself, mount them on two skis, then have teh inserts work and be strong enough, if there was a way to do taht with the inserts then it wouldn't matter if there was a standard mount design... too bad it wont' work though
 
yup, telemark skis now have inserts for standard G3(thats a telemark binding company) mounting pattern. theyr made so you can mount the bindings yourself at home and at the resort.
 
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