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I had the same problem this season. If your ski is completely symmetrical you can just turn the ski around and mount it the other way if the holes dont line up again! Thats what i did and it worked nicely! Goodluck!
Drill the whole way through the ski, flip the ski upside down and using a forstner bit drill until you remove the base material and hit the wood core, use a machine screw as your new binding hardware, once you have tightened down the bindings back on the ski fill the base back in with epoxy puddy, let cure and sand down the epoxy puddy level with the base. Ptex won’t work instead of the epoxy puddy, it is to brittle. Last season I did this with the heel pieces on my skis and never have had an issue, I’ve hit tons of rails and jumps, landing switch would put the most stress on the skis and still no issues. Hope this helps, I can take pictures of my skis and hardware if that helps.
^While creative, this is way more trouble than its worth just to save a few bucks. I wouldn’t want to compromise the base of my skis if I didn’t have to.
Drill the whole way through the ski, flip the ski upside down and using a forstner bit drill until you remove the base material and hit the wood core, use a machine screw as your new binding hardware, once you have tightened down the bindings back on the ski fill the base back in with epoxy puddy, let cure and sand down the epoxy puddy level with the base. Ptex won’t work instead of the epoxy puddy, it is to brittle. Last season I did this with the heel pieces on my skis and never have had an issue, I’ve hit tons of rails and jumps, landing switch would put the most stress on the skis and still no issues. Hope this helps, I can take pictures of my skis and hardware if that helps.
I wouldn't go for it unless it was my last resort
Drilling through your ski and exposing the core as well as fucking up your bases is probably not something you want to do
Drill the whole way through the ski, flip the ski upside down and using a forstner bit drill until you remove the base material and hit the wood core, use a machine screw as your new binding hardware, once you have tightened down the bindings back on the ski fill the base back in with epoxy puddy, let cure and sand down the epoxy puddy level with the base. Ptex won’t work instead of the epoxy puddy, it is to brittle. Last season I did this with the heel pieces on my skis and never have had an issue, I’ve hit tons of rails and jumps, landing switch would put the most stress on the skis and still no issues. Hope this helps, I can take pictures of my skis and hardware if that helps.
