Comments on: WildSnow Reader’s Rides — Davenport Does Dynafit

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:31:12 +0000

BTW, I got done with all my checking around about the “kit to make an ST into an FT12,” and Dynafit insider sources in Europe tell me no such thing exists.

By: Austin

Austin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:01:16 +0000

Hi Lou,

Thanks for all the great information on your blog. You mention above that you “enlarged the screw holes in the toe unit so they don’t double thread”. Is there any trick to doing this? Can I just set the toe unit over a piece of scrap wood and use a drill and bit to enlarge the hole? I didn’t notice this tip elsewhere in your mounting instructions.

Thanks!

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:30:04 +0000

Bas, in most cases they back out fairly easily, but it’s often best to lightly heat them first. The hardware store type 1-hour and 5-minute epoxys are all very heat sensitive. I heat the screws by touching them with the tip of a soldering iron for 15 seconds or so. The screws sometimes carry some core material on them when they come out, and need to be cleaned off so the threads cut properly when they’re reused. I clean the screws with a small wire wheel in a hand drill.

By: Bas

Bas — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:42:48 +0000

Hey Lou,

The on thing I have been wondering about the mounting with epoxy: how hard is it to get the screws out if you’d want to… oh, say move the binding to a next ski?

Grt
Bas

By: Scruppo

Scruppo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:12:06 +0000

Ah – The Klein Attitude with the garish dayglo red white and blue fade paint job I presume. My brother had one. (I used to be a bike mech also).