Member of the Month

Biffbarf
February, 2025

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Measureing to Mount

profile picture
Jorgen.
Posts: 1361 - Karma: 35
Well it's time for me to take my skis in to get mounted. I've read some horror stories about shops messing up the mount. Over and over again people have said to draw a line were you want them mounted and make it clear to the tech that that is were it needs to be mounted. This I plan on doing but I'm unsure of how to correctly messure. The skis that I'll be mounting are a pair of 07 Line Elizabeths and I want to mount them -2cm from TRUE center. What is the correct way to go about measure so the shop tech has no excuse to screw it up?
Nov 25 2007 1:14AM
0 0
profile picture
TechnoPotamus
Posts: 11626 - Karma: 3,522
i suppose if you really wanted to be sure you could just measure the entire ski, determine where the midpoint is and then back it up 2 cm and break out a black magic marker and tell them that's where you want it.
Nov 25 2007 1:19AM
0 0
profile picture
jason...
Posts: 9006 - Karma: 780
thats what i was gunna suggest, do it, it'll be accurate
Nov 25 2007 1:22AM
0 0
profile picture
eheath
Posts: 61836 - Karma: 125,529
Just measure tip to tip, take 1/2 (172/2 = 86 unless its different than the actual length) then measure back 2 cm.

Another way is to get to know your shop guys. When i get my skis mounted i alway go pull out my binders and boots and set them up on the ski how i want them and show the shop guys to make sure they know. I've measured a mounting point with them too. It's all about showing the actual person who is mounting them whats going on and not having some shit head high school kid write it down on a sheet of paper.
Nov 25 2007 1:29AM
0 0
profile picture
WeK
Posts: 1894 - Karma: 11
^^ that.

Also I think when you measure center you should measure where the ski meets the ground on both sides, but if they tips are the same I assume you'll be fine. Since it's Elizabeths you could just wait for someone to tell you how far the line is back from true center since it's a pretty popular ski I'm sure someone knows for sure already. Also I think Al's Ski barn, if they have any Elizabeths pick the drop down menus to get them mounted, and for mounting points I know they have "+X (true center)" as a choice, along with standard and what-not.
Nov 25 2007 1:50AM
0 0
profile picture
LC.
Posts: 5952 - Karma: 2,423
I'm pretty sure the recommended line is 2cm back. Check Line's site for the specs, or Pollard might talk about it on the video.
Nov 25 2007 4:50AM
0 0
profile picture
Jorgen.
Posts: 1361 - Karma: 35
Thanks for the advice. I measured both tip to tail and the length that the ski touches to ground, it turned out to be the same. I checked both untracked.com and the Line site and there wasn't any info. Oh and according to what I measured suggested is 3.5 cm back from true center.
Nov 25 2007 8:13PM
0 0
profile picture
Nine7OH__
Posts: 178 - Karma: 31
i work in a shop and for people to mess a mount up seems ridiculkous. all you need to do is take a tape measure from tip to tail find core center. mark it , measure two cm back and put a permanent mark there. and tell them specifically at the mark u made  which will make less room for error than just going in and saying 2cm back from core
Nov 26 2007 1:54PM
0 0
profile picture
Jorgen.
Posts: 1361 - Karma: 35
Thats what I have done. I dropped the skis off today to get them mounted so hopefully everything gows smoothly.
Nov 27 2007 7:22PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)