How to fix stripped binding holes 101

I kinda stole this off someone who posted this trick a while back but I’d figure id make it a thread since it’s a pretty cool trick and it works amazingly well for me and a lot of you could take benefit from this

Your binding holes are stripped. You don’t feel like paying your shop x amount of dollars to put heli coils in. Need something that’s cheap and will work well, especially in a Pinch?

The ole baking soda and liquid superglue trick. When you mix these two to about a 50/50 ratio, you get a really hard substance that’s similar to wood. You can drill it, sand it, you name it. The point of this trick is to fill your binding holes and then re-drill... viola, you have a new binding hole that’s not stripped.


here’s how to do this. If you don’t follow these steps it’s not really gonna work.


what you will need:

1. Fully liquid superglue (I use liquid loctite, Gel type glues will not work)
2. baking soda
3. paper clips, or some other thin object
4. sandpaper



Step 1. start out small... put a super tiny drop of glue in the hole. Then, use something small, like a paper clip, to drag only a tiny tiny amount of baking soda into the hole.

Step 2. Stick the paper clip in the hole to kinda mash the material all down if it’s too diluted with glue. Repeat this process in VERY SMALL INCREMENTS of glue/baking soda until you fill the hole and it is solid if you do too much of either ingredient at a time, it’s not going to mix well as only small portions of this stuff mixes at a time.

Step 3. If you go over the edge, sand down the top so your binding sits flush to the ski when put on.

Step 4. drill the hole to the correct depth (I like to wrap duct tape around my drill bit at the correct point so I don’t drill thru the bottom of the ski).

Step 5. Put the bindings on. If you really wanna go the extra mile, you can still use wood glue/ epoxy on the screws when you put them in to seal everything off.


I made this so detailed because this is easy to mess up and it’s just easier to do it the right way the first time so your bindings are held in rock solid.


DISCLAIMER: I’m not sure if this trick will work on holes where the binding was actually ripped out and left a wider hole in its place since the screw took wood/glue with it. If someone tries that please let me know how it works.


enjoy your weird yet super effective binding fix.