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How to remove Salomon SNS Profil binding?
I have a set of skis with the Salomon SNS Profil manual bindings on
them. Skate model. What's a good way to remove them? I see what looks like a plug at the rear of the heel plate but they're not easily removed. I can keep trying. I've removed the rubber bumpers. The plastic "S" snap-cover in the front-center of the binding, over the front-center screw, doesn't seem to want to come off. Do I just work a screwdriver under the front edge somehow? How do I expose the 2 side-screws? I don't see how to release the "bail" so that it can flip out of the way. Help? Links? Thanks, JP |
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How to remove Salomon SNS Profil binding?
On Feb 9, 4:07*pm, jeff potter wrote:
I have a set of skis with the Salomon SNS Profil manual bindings on them. Skate model. What's a good way to remove them? I see what looks like a plug at the rear of the heel plate but they're not easily removed. I can keep trying. I've removed the rubber bumpers. The plastic "S" snap-cover in the front-center of the binding, over the front-center screw, doesn't seem to want to come off. Do I just work a screwdriver under the front edge somehow? How do I expose the 2 side-screws? I don't see how to release the "bail" so that it can flip out of the way. Help? Links? Thanks, JP Jeff, I've removed tons of these bindings. It really doesn't take rocket science. Most of the time I can get my Swiss Army knife to remove the plug in the back. Hold it vertically and run it around the plug as you work it up. I have also used a real small drill bit and drilled a hole in it and they ride up the drill bit. The S cap in the front comes up really easy with the edge of my Swiss Army knife. Get the blade under it and pry up. Than I take my knife and work it from the back of the binding plate to the front. Be careful on this move with the knife. Just get the knife under the plate and work free the glue tape. Don't pry up but move the knife along. This works every time. Hard to beleive you've never taken one of these off after all the knowlege and experience you have. |
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How to remove Salomon SNS Profil binding?
Snap off the plastic thing, and you will see the main screw.
Note that Solmon screws are not phillips, even though they look like a regular cross, and they are made of hardenned steal. Cheapo screwdriviers almost definitely will get stripped (if your ski shop mounted the bindgins faithfully). I would get a badass screwdriver, or better yet, get a specialized Salomon screwdriver |
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How to remove Salomon SNS Profil binding?
wrote in message ... Snap off the plastic thing, and you will see the main screw. Note that Solmon screws are not phillips, even though they look like a regular cross, and they are made of hardenned steal. Cheapo screwdriviers almost definitely will get stripped (if your ski shop mounted the bindgins faithfully). I would get a badass screwdriver, or better yet, get a specialized Salomon screwdriver I believe that's a pozi-drive screw head you're referring to;...maybe a #3...if the screws are sealed with epoxy, warming them will soften the epoxy's bond. |
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How to remove Salomon SNS Profil binding?
Where do you find a posidrive? I looked around a few months ago and
failed. Gene "ED3" wrote: wrote in message ... Snap off the plastic thing, and you will see the main screw. Note that Solmon screws are not phillips, even though they look like a regular cross, and they are made of hardenned steal. Cheapo screwdriviers almost definitely will get stripped (if your ski shop mounted the bindgins faithfully). I would get a badass screwdriver, or better yet, get a specialized Salomon screwdriver I believe that's a pozi-drive screw head you're referring to;...maybe a #3...if the screws are sealed with epoxy, warming them will soften the epoxy's bond. |
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How to remove Salomon SNS Profil binding?
On Feb 9, 6:56*pm, wrote:
Where do you find a posidrive? *I looked around a few months ago and failed. Gene "ED3" wrote: wrote in message .... Snap off the plastic thing, and you will see the main screw. Note that Solmon screws are not phillips, even though they look like a regular cross, and they are made of hardenned steal. Cheapo screwdriviers almost definitely will get stripped (if your ski shop mounted the bindgins faithfully). I would get a badass screwdriver, or better yet, get a specialized Salomon screwdriver I believe that's a pozi-drive screw head you're referring to;...maybe a #3...if the screws are sealed with epoxy, warming them will soften the epoxy's bond. Tornar Toolworks: http://www.tognar.com |
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How to remove Salomon SNS Profil binding?
On Feb 9, 6:43*pm, ADK Skier wrote:
On Feb 9, 4:07*pm, jeff potter wrote: I have a set of skis with the Salomon SNS Profil manual bindings on them. Skate model. What's a good way to remove them? I see what looks like a plug at the rear of the heel plate but they're not easily removed. I can keep trying. I've removed the rubber bumpers. The plastic "S" snap-cover in the front-center of the binding, over the front-center screw, doesn't seem to want to come off. Do I just work a screwdriver under the front edge somehow? How do I expose the 2 side-screws? I don't see how to release the "bail" so that it can flip out of the way. Help? Links? Thanks, JP Jeff, I've removed tons of these bindings. It really doesn't take rocket science. Most of the time I can get my Swiss Army knife to remove the plug in the back. Hold it vertically and run it around the plug as you work it up. I have also used a real small drill bit and drilled a hole in it and they ride up the drill bit. The S cap in the front comes up really easy with the edge of my Swiss Army knife. Get the blade under it and pry up. Than I take my knife and work it from the back of the binding plate to the front. Be careful on this move with the knife. Just get the knife under the plate and work free the glue tape. Don't pry up but move the knife along. This works every time. Hard to beleive you've never taken one of these off after all the knowlege and experience you have. I've only installed one set of SNS Profil autos (for my wife). Never removed them. Used NNN otherwise for decades. I still haven't heard about how to get at the 2 side-screws. I can't even see them. ? They appear to be hidden under the pivoting metal shell cover---I don't see how to pivot it to expose the heads. |
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How to remove Salomon SNS Profil binding?
PS: Ah, ha. I dug into it. Here's what's really going on with this
binding type. The white "cap" over at the rear of the heel plate is NOT a cap at all. It's a one-use barbed-plug-rivet thingy. There is NO screw under it. So you do not really just pry it up. You pry at it but your efforts are pulling it out of THE SKI. It has a "barb" on the end to prevent you from doing this. So eventually this item BREAKS OFF, leaving its barb inside the ski. Terrible design, so it seems. How to reinstall the binding onto another ski? YOU CANNOT. You MUST acquire another undamaged white plug-rivet. Where? Who knows. Nonstandard item. I suppose a local shop might have some around. It might be outdated for all I know. These are somewhat older bindings. I can't imagine such a method lasting more than one design cycle. Ugh. Anyway, then you lift off the heel plate section-chunk and pull it to the rear and off of the front part of the binding and the side screws are exposed. Now we're back in familiar territory and I expect no further difficulties... --JP |
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How to remove Salomon SNS Profil binding?
PPS: I removed the other barbed-plug out without breaking it, but it's
a bit marred and "vexed". I'm not sure I'd want to re-use it (or resell it). They don't appear designed to be reusable. Oh well! --JP |
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