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FKS Screws too long?!?

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Rippy087
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Well I just got a phone call like 5 mins ago from the guy mounting my skis at my shop.  He says: "Hey man, I'm mounting your skis right now, but the screws on the FKS are about 2mm too long and if I mount them I will go right through your bases, did they come with lifters or spacers?".  That's about as exact of a quote as I can remember.  I proceeded to tell him that they don't even make FKS bindings with lifters.  He then told me that the shop I bought them from must have replaced the original screws with longer screws and now mounting them is a "liability".

When I was looking at my bindings before dropping them off to have them mounted, I did notice that each binding had one screw that was slightly longer than the rest (aka 3 short screws and 1 long screw).  Now I'm kind of worried that the only screws that were too long were the 2 screws that were different and he is going to grind them all down or something.

Anyone else have this problem? I told him it will be ok to grind the screws down, but I don't want to end up ripping my bindings out.  I have never heard of the screws on the FKS being too long, I bought them new from proctorjones, so I seriously doubt they did anything with them before shipping them out.

Thanks,
Jake

Dec 4 2007 2:40PM
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Silence
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the shop tech sounds like he's switched on, i'd trust him on it and grind them down..

The screws after grinding, woudldn't be any shorter than normal FKS screws so i can't see how they would be any more prone to ripping out of a base, than normal.
Dec 4 2007 2:49PM
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=nick=
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actually they do make fks with lifters theyre kinda old but they exist, but thats besides the point. you should be fine grinding them down
Dec 4 2007 2:53PM
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Shadows
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your shop guy is an idiot. any good tech wouldnt have even called you. they wouldve just either grinded the screws down or got new ones. you wouldnt even have known anything was wrong. i hate guys like that. make things way too complicated for no reason.
Dec 4 2007 2:56PM
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Rippy087
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i think he was asking, because like the guy ^^ said they did used to make them with lifters.  And if i didn't bring the lifters, he wanted to know if I wanted to bring them in or something along those lines.  but I guess I'm just gonna stop worrying now lol
Dec 4 2007 2:58PM
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gregor
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FKS def can come with lifters as I have some
Dec 4 2007 3:08PM
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Rippy087
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alright, so mabey they just sent me the fks with lifer's but took off the lifters since i didnt order them
Dec 4 2007 3:10PM
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Aenigma
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I'd rather know what was going on so I could make the decisions about my own skis.  There's no harm in calling the customer and letting them know what's up, I've had a couple techs call me before mounting because of hole conflicts and was really glad they took the two minutes to do it.
Dec 4 2007 3:13PM
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lyndon
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I bought my FKS, and they didnt have all the screws. I called the shop, and they said they would mail them out, but they ended up mailing the ones used to mount with a plate.

I eventually got over it, and emailed proctorjones. They hooked me up with the right screws, and it was free, even though Im in canada and didnt buy the bindings from them. Try PJ's.
Dec 7 2007 10:18PM
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Rippy087
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got it all sorted out, the guy ground the screws down and mounted them. haven't skiied on them yet but hopefully i won't have any problems
Dec 8 2007 1:44AM
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Tucks
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good

Dec 8 2007 9:02AM
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