Poster: A snowHead
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I have a switch knob at the top of the toe end of my bindings on my skis, which has always been set at the side. It looks like it slides up to a position which there is writing which says "on". Anyone know what this knob does? (I have never touched it)
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=173699&d=1450676878
From searching the internet it looks like it was the piston technology button which allows the ski to reduce vibrations when it unloads. I have no idea about this, and people are very scathing of this old technology on other forums.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Bigtipper, what are the bindings? Link doesn’t work?
Photo?
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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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Are they marker titanium piston control? If it actually has the piston it changes the flex of the binding plate, some have the switch but no piston actually fitted. They weigh quite a bit as far I remember, had them on a pair of volkl piste skis I once had, it did make the ski feel different but that is all I can remember about them sorry
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cross post and my browser didn't refresh.....so didn't see your other post
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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'm getting the message "Forbidden" for the first link now. The second link seems to work. My bindings are exactly the same as these, so I have no close up photo. They have a piston there, so the button probably does something. (I never had an instruction manual, or never read it)
This is the best image I have currently uploaded. I use a DIN setting of 7, so I guess I am in a different league to the guys on the other forum who are probably racers.
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OK, I turned the piston switch on yesterday when skiing Glencoe. The difference seems to be a bigger shove when you come out of a carved turn. Obviously this innovation in the bindings did not catch on, otherwise all ski bindings would have a piston these days.
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