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Wow, it’s got a true Erector Set look, but the heel and toe pins look much like the current Dynafits. Fritz was quite kind to send them home with you.
Hummmm…. Looking at that photo the boot length must be for a munchkin…..
Sorry, couldn’t resist……
Ok, sure, you can cobble together Dynafits in the basement – but what about the BOOTS? What were they using?
Aaron, the boot thing was indeed a major deal. What they did was pick the lightest touring boot of the day, a red Dynafit model called the Tourlite which was popular in those days. Then they retrofitted the fittings. The toe fitting was a small steel cylinder with a cup at each end. They would drill a hole left/right in the toe of the boot and press the fitting in, then secure it by various means. Fritz told me the fitting would loosen, and working with a full size run of ski boots was incredibly expensive. So they worked with Dynafit and worked out a deal where Dynafit would mold the fittings into the boots while they were being made in the factory. Then Dynafit eventually bought the license to make the binding. (And of course Dynafit was later sold to a parent company but is still called Dynafit.)
What kind of boots are these for? Looks odd.
They’re for early boots with Dynafit fittings from 1980s.
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