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Pilot bindings on rollerskis
I am about to order yet another pair of rollerskis. The company does
not have a Pilot rig so I will have to install the bindings myself. Two questions: 1. Do you tap holes in the aluminum board and use bolts? Or do you use Pilot stock screws and force them in sheet metal style, like you would for snow skis, w/o tapping the holes? Do you use some sort of adhesive to secure the screws? If I must tap the holes, can you recommend an appropriate screw size/pitch? I have access to a fully equipped metalworking machine shop with metric and inch taps. 2. Does anyone have used Pilot Equipe skating bindings for sale? Year does not matter as long as they are functional (can be yellow/black/ gray). I figured I would ask before shelving out $99.00. No luck with ebay. Contact me at runcyclexcskiNOSPAMPLEASE at gmail. |
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Pilot bindings on rollerskis
For what it's worth, I've always found that aluminum is soft enough to
allow self tapping with the normal binding screws. I drill the pilot hole at the recommended diameter and screw away, with no adhesive. I've never had easy access to tapping equipment though or I might have wanted to tap it. Still, it seems to have worked OK for me with no tapping. -Jim On Mar 21, 12:09*pm, " wrote: I am about to order yet another pair of rollerskis. The company does not have a Pilot rig so I will have to install the bindings myself. Two questions: 1. Do you tap holes in the aluminum board and use bolts? Or do you use Pilot stock screws and force them in sheet metal style, like you would for snow skis, w/o tapping the holes? Do you use some sort of adhesive to secure the screws? If I must tap the holes, can you recommend an appropriate screw size/pitch? I have access to a fully equipped metalworking machine shop with metric and inch taps. 2. Does anyone have used Pilot Equipe skating bindings for sale? Year does not matter as long as they are functional (can be yellow/black/ gray). I figured I would ask before shelving out $99.00. No luck with ebay. Contact me at runcyclexcskiNOSPAMPLEASE at gmail. |
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Pilot bindings on rollerskis
On Mar 22, 11:43*am, Jim wrote:
For what it's worth, I've always found that aluminum is soft enough to allow self tapping with the normal binding screws. *I drill the pilot hole at the recommended diameter and screw away, with no adhesive. I've never had easy access to tapping equipment though or I might have wanted to tap it. *Still, it seems to have worked OK for me with no tapping. -Jim On Mar 21, 12:09*pm, " wrote: I am about to order yet another pair of rollerskis. The company does not have a Pilot rig so I will have to install the bindings myself. Two questions: 1. Do you tap holes in the aluminum board and use bolts? Or do you use Pilot stock screws and force them in sheet metal style, like you would for snow skis, w/o tapping the holes? Do you use some sort of adhesive to secure the screws? If I must tap the holes, can you recommend an appropriate screw size/pitch? I have access to a fully equipped metalworking machine shop with metric and inch taps. 2. Does anyone have used Pilot Equipe skating bindings for sale? Year does not matter as long as they are functional (can be yellow/black/ gray). I figured I would ask before shelving out $99.00. No luck with ebay. Contact me at runcyclexcskiNOSPAMPLEASE at gmail. OK. I will take a look how thick the Al frame on the new rollerskis is, and based on that will decide whether to tap or not. |
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Pilot bindings on rollerskis
On Mar 25, 7:59*am, kskier wrote:
You should make sure the binding is square on the ski. Have you ever mounted bindings on roller skis before? If not....it is very important that you put your normal skate boot into the binding and then place it on the roller ski. For skate bindings you should place the binding with the boot on them so the boot is almost dead center of the roller ski. For classic you should mount them towards the back of the ski, as so the heel of the boot does not hit the rear bumper or wheel , depending on which type of roller ski you have purchased. If you go to Jenex's web site,(V-2) they give exact distances for mounting the binding depending on what size boot you have......and of course those distances are for their roller skis, but will give give you a good rule of thumb to go by. Once you have the binding situated, remove the boot and make sure binding is square, mark holes, then use a center punch, then drill a piolt hole, and then just use the standard binding screws.......... I will probably push the bindings as far back as my size 11 boots allow. The frames are 530 mm so they probably won't be "balananced" anyway like snow skis are, simply due to the short length of the frame The drilling will be done on a bridgeport milling machine, so the squareness should be good to within 0.001", no eyeballing involved. |
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