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Is it me? My Skis? or the 8mm gap between my toe and the binding?
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So towards the end of last season and through the start of this year I have been rather down on my skiing... nothing was working as expected and my skis just didn't seem to do what I thought they should be doing...

And so last Friday I was idling my way up a drag in Contamines and noticed that my boots seemed to be somewhat disengaged from my skis, as in, I could tilt side to side and the boot moved but the ski didn't. It looked like a bit of play in the boot-binding interface.

Cut to Friday and I'm dropping the skis off for a service pre a week holiday in Champoluc and I have a wee test in the garage.

Not just a wee bit of play.

Maybe about 8mm in the height adjustment, Shocked Shocked

Drop them in the shop and they agree.

So for a goodly number of weeks, I have been more or less unable to adequately set an edge.

No fricking wonder it wasn't working as expected.

Adjusted appropriately and out and about today - OMFG - what an enormous and not unexpected difference.

How did this happen?

We think that when the shop replaced the failed heel piece, they mounted for a standard Alpine boot sole ... but as my boots were slightly Frankensteined (sole ground down, Vibram replacements) the height was already wrong and wear over the season meant the non auto set Markers just were out of setting.

Phew.

I thought it was me.
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8mm is a huge amount, I'm surprised your boot wasn't just rattling in the binding and releasing at every opportunity. I think you are lucky not have a major stack.
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I haven't done this for a long time but I'm sure I used make sure there was just the thickness of a credit card between the boot and the skid late.
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@PowderAdict, indeed. I think forward pressure friction was stopping the rattling around.

But enormous difference.

I am led to believe that I m pretty well centred so not generally applying too much release like force.

But ... Shocked
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DrLawn wrote:
I haven't done this for a long time but I'm sure I used make sure there was just the thickness of a credit card between the boot and the skid late.

Industry standard is 0.5mm so business card not credit card. It's less on some bindings.
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Cheers John, I'll use a business card in future, it was a long time ago.
Its strange how we can be so trusting of the technicians who adjust our skis.
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@DrLawn, there is the odd credit card that will work - just send me the number off yours and I'll check Madeye-Smiley
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I found I had to adjust the height at the toe of my salmon wardens as I could simply not get the toe to engage properly if there was the slightest amount of snow on the boot soles.
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@spyderjon, didn't you use to recommend the Macdonalds coffee saver card??
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kitenski wrote:
@spyderjon, didn't you use to recommend the Macdonalds coffee saver card??

I did as it was perfect. They changed it a few years ago but I've not measured the thickness of the new one.

There's a reason my business cards are 0.5mm thick! Cool
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spyderjon wrote:
@DrLawn, there is the odd credit card that will work - just send me the number off yours and I'll check Madeye-Smiley


It wouldnonly work with those 3 digits found on thebback side
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