Replying to Help with gear - Salomon STH2 WTR 13 2019 model

​Hi all,

I've seen a few threads regarding the setup of kit. I like to be fully aware of how to use my own kit and can tell many others in the community here do as well. This is to avoid the possibility that a shop / tech does it wrong on my behalf (has happened to me twice with kit i knew the correct setup for), to modify for different boots i have, and also to check it periodically during its working life :)

I recently made a purchase of skis with a set of the above bindings mounted. I did this from an online shop, that also has a bricks and mortar shop in Scotland. I didn't have my boot to provide them and as a consequence need to set the binding up properly with respect to the following:

1. Toe wing adjustment to grip front of the ski boot - at what point is it set correctly?

2. Toe piece height for boot sole thickness (also modifiable for WTR / Alpine din sole), i read it would be set write if i can just move a standard business card in and out with it being freely moveable, and not shreading it as i move it in or out - would this be correct? I would normally expect there to be little to no vertical play in the toe or heal so as to maintain contact with the contact points under the ski boot??

3. Forward pressure from heal piece (if applicable to the binding) - i know there is a screw adjustment, should it be flush with the housing of the binding heal when the boot is in place and locked in, or is there a tell tail that i should be able to see once the boot is locked in like a hashed marking on the screw neck etc as on previous/other bindings?


The shop have already supplied me with limited info, i.e. where i find the screws to perform the tasks (which i didn't need them to point out....) and they gave an old TGR website link to the previous generation of STH binding heal pieces for the forward pressure setup, which is now different on the STH2 model i think as it is a guardian style heal now with a different track adjustment setup than before as well. Salomon themselves have been spectacularly unhelpful with this matter.

Any help you guys can give will be appreciated.