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Salomon XT12 Bindings Adjustment
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Hi All

After a little bit of advice.

I have a set of Salomon XT12 bindings. I have set the toe and heel pieces to my correct boot length of 305mm. When I put the boot in the bindings the forward pressure indicator is not sitting in the designated zone. Does anyone know how to adjust the bindings so the forward pressure is correct?

Thanks
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Ignore the BSL scale on the heel as most of the time it's inaccurate (ie when set to the BSL the forward pressure is not right, just as you've experienced).

Set the toe to your BSL (or wherever you want to position your boot on the ski, ie a bit forward for hardpack/ice or a bit back for powder/slush etc).

Position the heel so that when the boot is installed the forward pressure is correct.

From a safety point of view that bindings can be anywhere on the ski so long as the forward pressure is correct.
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Hi

Thanks so much for the response.

As I have done exactly as you suggest and the forward pressure is now absolutely spot on. Set the BSL on the toe piece to 305mm and moved the heel piece back one notch and all is well. Seems a bit counter intuitive to move the back piece to a length that is not actually your BSL but it has certainly worked a treat.

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@Griggs, yep, it's poor design & totally misleading to have the heel scale marked in BSL's. Far better for the heel to have an alpha scale or 1,2,3,4 etc.
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Hi

One final question, do I need to do any height or other adjustments on the toe piece? Think it is all auto on this binding but just wanted to check.

Thanks
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lots of info in this Doc

http://salomontechnician.com/uploads/salomon_tech_manual_15-16.pdf
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One thing to remember is that each 'notch' in the heel piece of the binding rail represents BSLs of maybe 5-6mm. (Mine do anyway, maybe yours more, or less). But then in the heel binding is a lardy great spring which pushes the heel piece forwards into your boot.

Since you've got that wiggle room in the notch - it's plainly obvious that with the heel piece pushing against the back of your boot, that it's going to push the binding hard into the rear end of the notch, as the spring is pushing hard against both solid surfaces.

What this means is that if your BSL is already the same as the measurement at the back of the notch, the binding has nowhere to move and ends up with excessive forward pressure. This worsens of course with a higher DIN, too.

So if your BSL is at the high extreme of the notch in the rail, it's common to have to go one notch up to give the binding that bit of space.

I hope this makes sense.

I use rail bindings and always have to go one notch up in the rail. As Jon says it would be better to list the measurements only on the toe piece side of the rail, and leave the heel binding adjustment to what the forward pressure indicator tells you.
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Hi

Many thanks for all your replies. Your explanation above makes perfect sense and explains exactly why I've needed to push the heel binding back one notch.

I have now dialed in my DIN setting and then rechecked the forward pressure and it is still bang on the money.

Bring on Serre Chevalier next weekend !!

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@albob I have read the manual in detail - still slightly unclear whether the XT12 bindings have automatic toe wing and height adjustments. Some of the translation on the manual is not great. I believe that they are automatic on both counts but if anyone could confirm I'd be grateful.

Regards
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The XT toe is the Z Series toe which has auto toe height and toe wing adjustment.
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Thanks so much @spyderjon, !!
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