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Who's at fault here for the bindings pulling out of my skis?

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Mag
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Basically, I was just putting my skis together for skiing tomorrow, but the binding seemed pretty weird and wobbly.

They're look pivots, I don't know when this happened but I noticed it now.

Basically what's happened is the front 2 screws on the heelpiece are held in fine, perfectly strong.

However the 2 screws on the heel piece just won't bite the ski, they just keep turning. It seems as though it's threaded somehow.

Is this a result of a bad mounting job? or just unlucky and my fault.

Thanks
Apr 1 2013 6:29PM
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El_Barto.
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Bad mount. Heli coil, problem solved
Apr 1 2013 6:35PM
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Mag
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That's what I figured, thanks man.
Apr 1 2013 6:36PM
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Crispy.
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Same thing happened w/ my pivots/fks
Apr 1 2013 7:03PM
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VD.
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What shop did you get them mounted at?
Apr 1 2013 7:16PM
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Mag
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Craigdon, why do you ask?
Apr 1 2013 7:28PM
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VD.
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Just interested, since I've moved up here, I'm trying to work out which are the good shops, so I can point people in the right direction if they ask.
Apr 1 2013 7:39PM
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Mag
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A lot of the guys at freeze seem to be pretty knowledgable and skilled, but there's also some who don't know shit which is dissapointing. I like the guys at EB aviemore, specially the guy that looks like jack whitehall, always forget his name, but he's done a lot of free shit for me too.
Apr 1 2013 8:05PM
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VD.
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I've always had good experiences when I go into freeze, I find the older guy in freeze knows his stuff.

The shop I really don't like is Tiso in Edinburgh, they've got this half time shop tech who didn't know what an STH16 was even though they're Salomon dealers. The other departments in Tiso are pretty good though, so for other outdoor equipment I go there.

Really I would like to be able to get a work shop set up home so I could do my own mounts. But at the moment that's just not possible, there's just not enough space.
Apr 1 2013 8:24PM
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Mag
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Yeah I get that, I'm tempted to make an fks jig, but it's easier than getting everything to just get the shop to do it, and take liability.

Yeah my family has never really had good experiences with tiso, didn't they go out of business? or was that blacks? I was pretty sure it was the same company.
Apr 1 2013 9:02PM
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