Mounting your own bindings... mad ++++++K for good responses

first you get your skis, then get your bindings, then your boots.

Then toss them all in the car and get them mounted at your local shop.

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you need special mounting tools

try youtube, maybe scott vail has a tutorial on it!!

If i were you, I would make a jig with a piece of thin almost transparent paper or something. like take a piece of paper put it up against your old bindings and punch holes where the screws go through, then really really carefully line it up on your skis and drill. If these are your beater/backyard skis you might as well just try to jimmy-rig it. Just be really precise on the drilling and lining up part. Good luck.

i know this is not what you want to hear, but SERIOUSLY....if you do not know how to do it yourself without asking others, DONT DO IT....even with step by step instructions you can VERY easily fuck your skis up. Shops use special jigs and bits to mount bindings and they still fuck up, what seems like relatively often, so someone with no experience has little chance of mounting skis successfully.

Heres what i did. first off do the old skis that you got the bindings from, were they orginaly mounted for your boots you have now? If so you can just cut out the section of were the binding was mounted before. this way you will have a jig for all the holes you are going to need to drill. and you can just measure and line that cut out section (from old skis) up on your new skis and drill about 3/4 of the way through your new skis. but this way require cutting the old skis up and drilling all the way through the bases. hope that makes sense. if not maybe call rossie and ask for a paper jig for your binding and measure twice cut once. or heres a link to a short how to. http://www.ehow.com/how_4600064_mounting-alpine-ski-bindings.html

Go search on tgr. The people over there are much more welcoming of the do-it-yourself people.

no you dont dude. i mounted my bindings last year

hear me out: this would work much better with 2 people...

1. find an electric drill w/ small bit (bit smaller than size of screws that hold your bundings in), a pencil, and duct tape

2. set up skis on workbench if you have one

3. take your bindings and put all the associated screws in a pile to the side

4. set up bindings on ski with boot in them (obviously not screwed in), slide to where you want the bindings to be positioned, using the boot to measure the distance from true center.

5. with someone else holding the setup (bindings + clicked in boot) color in the screw holes (where screws that hold your binding would be) of the bindings with the pencil

now you have a representation of the positioning of your binding via pencil marks.

6. take drill w/ drill bit and place along sidewall of ski to measure drilling depth. once you see how deep to drill, cover the remaining bit with duct tape. this way, you ensure that you wont drill past this depth.

7. its drilling time. **NOTE** MAKE SURE THE BIT WIDTH IS SMALLER THAN THE SIZE OF THE BINDING SCREWS!!! take the drill with only the certain amount of drill bit exposed and begin to drill out the pencil marks. its best not to force it, in case the duct tape doesnt hold up.

8. with all the holes drilled out simply line up the holes with the associated holes on the bindings and drill the screws in.

9. repeat on other ski.

10. and wallah!! you just mounted bindings!!!

this is the exact same way i mounted the bindings on my publics last year and they performed just as if a shop mounted them. it saved me some cash too!! i hope this helps. pm me with any questions

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