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MontuckyMadman
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sweet inserts
http://bindingfreedom.com/
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Helicoil? Not familiar with that term.
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http://www.emhart.com/brands/heli-coil
"86% of the time it works 100% of the time".
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So the ski shop told us the helicoils would fail in the balsa. What do you guys think about drilling a larger hole for each binding screw filling it with epoxy and a helicoil and then covering that with a sheet metal and mounting bindings on top? This in theory would allow the screw to get a better bite into the sheet metal and the sheet metal would help hold down the inserts.
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drill all the way through the ski and countersink tnuts with base material attached. I think tognar or svst has them. they are for snowboards but they make a 13mm for skis.
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