Vibra-tite is a commercially available product (I bought mine from ) that you can apply to screws that helps prevent them from vibrating out of the insert as added security.Īgain, for anyone who has multiple pairs of bindings or skis, I find that the quiver killers are worth their weight in gold. I always carry extra machine screws in case I loose one (never happened), and I always have a tool to tighten the screws before a trip, and througout the trip when opportunities arise, just to be cautions - but I have never had a situation where I lost a screw, or where a screw was loose. I can think of NO reason that they are a bad option for backcountry skiing. They are also significantly stronger than a normal wood screw and epoxy set up that most bindings are mounted with - I cannot remember the exact difference in terms of pull-out-force required, but it was on the order of about 1.25 times the conventiional wood screw binding set up. I personanly have three pairs of skis, a pair of tele bindings and a pair of AT bindings and have all three pairs of skis drilled for both sets of bindings so I can swap them back and forth (essentially six pairs of skis for the cost of three fully rigged pairs).īeyond the flexibility of changing the bindings out, they pack smaller when you remove the bindings if you are going to travel with them. Quiver Killers are a great setup if you have a signle set of bindings and want to swap them around. If you are good with tools, you could for sure do it yourself, time wise it just worked for me to have them do it. I would highly reccomend at least calling them up, but I would also say it would be worth the drive up there. I think it was $100 per paio of skis, and they were perfect and ensured that everything worked out perfectly. We have also started playing with different mounting points on the same ski, set back for pow days, or center mounted for park laps on the same ski.I got mine professionally installed by the guys at Backcountry Essentials in Bellingham. From shimming bindings to reduce ramp angle, inserts being used in startup ski companie's demo fleets, to removing bindings for easy tuning without a bridge.
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