Slightly misaligned mount

[Monsieur_Patate]

I mounted my new skis and as you can see I managed to fuck up and I now have one ski slightly misaligned.

Seems pretty mild to me so I'd be inclined to live with it, but wondering what y'all think. (and I already tried removing and gradually retightening the tow piece with the boot in to "force them" into alignment but that's still the best I could get)



**This thread was edited on Jan 5th 2022 at 11:39:34pm

 

[saucelars]

if you can click in, i’d say run it. Not like you are going to be doing park laps on repeat with that setup anyways

 

[Monsieur_Patate]

if you can click in, i’d say run it. Not like you are going to be doing park laps on repeat with that setup anyways

Yeah, I can click in easily.

I guess the only risk with misalignment is pre-releasing, so I should find out soon enough if that's actually happening and if it does I can always re-mount. But since it's the misalignment is so minimal I'm thinking it probably shouldn't even be an issue, just wanted a sanity check in case I'm missing something.

 

[animator]

Can you get a release test done? Is that something you can do on pins?

Yeah it’s not quite the same as alpine bindings but it can and should be done.

op that’s more than a little misaligned at least from what I can see in the picture. Even though you can click your boot in, the pressure from the pins will not be distributed evenly which will not only cause prerelease, but also uneven wear and comprised safety (in the event of a fall). I wouldn’t do it but I don’t like pins a whole lot anyway so you do do

 

[Monsieur_Patate]

Yeah it’s not quite the same as alpine bindings but it can and should be done.

op that’s more than a little misaligned at least from what I can see in the picture. Even though you can click your boot in, the pressure from the pins will not be distributed evenly which will not only cause prerelease, but also uneven wear and comprised safety (in the event of a fall). I wouldn’t do it but I don’t like pins a whole lot anyway so you do do

I'm a bit OCD so I ended up widening a couple of holes by like a mm in the toe piece to straighten it out. Screws still seemed to bite fine, but to be safe I stuffed the holes with steel wool+epoxy, screwed it back in and I'm letting it cure for 24 hours but it's straight and should be solid.

But tbh, I had a chat with a tech and he said for a shop because of expectations, liability, etc. he'd have to fix it to get it perfect but for his own skis he probably wouldn't have bothered. His view is that 1-2mm off won't realistically matter enough to cause pre-release issues.

Then regarding uneven wear you're mentioning, I wouldn't think it matters either unless you plan to run them into the ground. I tour maybe 40% of my days, then within those days out of the quiver this one will be out maybe 35% of those days, so we're talking 8-10 days a season, tops. Out of those 10 days I'm still only clicked in on the way down, which is only a fraction of the day, so we're talking what, 10 hours a season clicked in? I'd have to keep these for 15 years for that to wear to start showing when the skis will likely come out of the rotation in 5 tops. But everyone's different.

So yeah, I know some people won't settle for anything short of perfection, others will bodge everything, personal tolerance I guess. Next time I won't do it in a rush tho so I don't have to ask myself that question.

 

[animator]

I'm a bit OCD so I ended up widening a couple of holes by like a mm in the toe piece to straighten it out. Screws still seemed to bite fine, but to be safe I stuffed the holes with steel wool+epoxy, screwed it back in and I'm letting it cure for 24 hours but it's straight and should be solid.

But tbh, I had a chat with a tech and he said for a shop because of expectations, liability, etc. he'd have to fix it to get it perfect but for his own skis he probably wouldn't have bothered. His view is that 1-2mm off won't realistically matter enough to cause pre-release issues.

Then regarding uneven wear you're mentioning, I wouldn't think it matters either unless you plan to run them into the ground. I tour maybe 40% of my days, then within those days out of the quiver this one will be out maybe 35% of those days, so we're talking 8-10 days a season, tops. Out of those 10 days I'm still only clicked in on the way down, which is only a fraction of the day, so we're talking what, 10 hours a season clicked in? I'd have to keep these for 15 years for that to wear to start showing when the skis will likely come out of the rotation in 5 tops. But everyone's different.

So yeah, I know some people won't settle for anything short of perfection, others will bodge everything, personal tolerance I guess. Next time I won't do it in a rush tho so I don't have to ask myself that question.

Yeah that’s all fair! I’m a tech so I sort of operate as if it’s a customers skis I’m working on, even if they’re my own just because I’ve been trained to think like that. You’re right though, probably not enough use to cause uneven wear like you said

 

[lil.Boye]

You’ll be fine, seen people run worse misallignment. Kinda annoying but doesn’t matter while skiing