 Poster: A snowHead
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A friend recently took her skis in for a service and was told that it was "essential to have the bindings tested and a certificate issued for insurance purposes". Was a bit surprised by the insurance assertion (anyone ever experienced this as an issue) but agree with the need to test them. Now on Jon's Piste Office site he states that he "has one of only a few ski binding torque testing machines in the UK (a Wintersteiger Skitronic Plus c/w the latest wide ski clamps & the latest software release) and it only costs £20 to have your bindings checked." given that he isn't entirely convenient for London can anyone recommend a service shop in London that has the appropriate equipment?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@tarrantd, now, call me cavalier, but in 46 years of skiing, most recently typically around 60 days a year, I have never, ever had my bindings formally tested.
Given I live in Switzerland, a country that takes its insurance quite seriously, I would imagine that any insurance requirement would be flagged here first 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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A friend had his bindings checked here yesterday. It cost CHF20, and he came out of the shop with a little round sticker on his skis saying '2017'. All good. The conversation then turned to the means of calculating the DIN values that had been tested. This of course depends entirely on info provided by the owner regarding weight, skiing ability, boot sole length & age.
It strikes me that in addition to checking that a binding will release according to the values determined by the DIN standard, shops would provide better value by trying to validate the base info used to calculate the DIN values. Having a set of scales would certainly help, but things like 'skier type' (1,2 or 3 etc) are so subjective as to render the whole exercise pretty haphazard.
The insurance thing has to be bunkum by the way.
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After 30 years of skiing, I saw my first binding test machine in January at Felix Sport in Saas-Fee. I wasn't sure if the boots/skis/binding being tested were the ladies own or rentals.
I'm assuming it has potentially become a liability issue, with people no longer accepting crashes as accidents, and someone has to be to blame.
Sorry, can't help with a London location. Maybe contact Wintersteiger and see if they have a list of shops in the UK.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I think Snowtrax & Ski Bartlett both have torque testing machines.
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@tarrantd, That sounds like a load of rubbish to me (in regards to the insurance). There is no (IME) 'official' way of doing this so I don't see how an insurer can blame you for your lack of binding service unless they stipulate the exact test that is needed and by whom or what body.... complete nonsense.
Bindings are not particularly complicated things. It is possible even with the 'exact' settings set for your 'exact' skiing style on the the 'exact' terrain that you have stipulated that you could suffer from pre-release or non-release due to the 'exact' physics happening at the 'exact' time of the fall.
I service mine by either blowing the pellet dust out of them (my ski room is also the wood pellet room) or by washing off the mud from the flood that they have been affected by!
Last edited by You'll need to Register first of course. on Sun 26-03-17 22:34; edited 1 time in total
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I wasn't aware that Snowtrax had a torque tester. I can check on Wednesday if you want?
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Thanks everybody @spyderjon, is correct in that both Snowtrax and Ski Bartlett have Wintersteiger testing machines according to their websites.
Given that my friend is in London I'll suggest she uses Ski Bartlett.
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