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I'll have to see what canadian shipping would cost. 180 cm, no idea on side cut. Discs are mounted with wood/sheet metal type screws no inserts.

Bought it, cleaned up stone ground, edges radially ground on Montana machine. Tried rising it a few times and it scares the crap out of me;). I'll stick with ski racing. Have it listed on eBay, but for here since there are no fees 270 shipped

Just got back to looking at this thread. Took the board to my race ski tuning shop, it was very base high. Had it ground and the side edge set at 3, base edge is a radial/progressive angle. I'm going to give it a shot with the bindings how they currently are and then go from there. Now all we need is some snow.

OK, should have taken the 5 minutes to pull them off. Now I see what the deal is. The front disc is mounted at an angle so that the front binding can be 0 degrees. The rear disc is mounted in what I assume is the normal manner and it doesn't allow the rear binding to get any straighter than it is. The bolts and washers the previous owner used look like an attempt to get as much adjustment as possible. The rear disc is a 3 degree I assume since it has a 3 on it. So it appears that I either need to remount the disc in the rear (cant would be in wrong direction or get something different that positions the top side mounting holes like the front one is mounted. Could I swap on one of these in the back? http://bomberonline.3dcartstores.com/Skwal-Base-Plate_p_111.html

The front binding on mine is mounted flat. The rear has some heel lift to it, not sure how much and I haven't taken it apart yet.

Why not, the front one is set at 0 ? What would keep them from going to or near 0? And what is different about a skwal base plate?

No, just talking about 2 things in one post. 1/3 for base/edge angles is my plan 0 degree front boot and somewhere near 0 - whatever is comfortable for the rear. Most stuff I've found says that 3-5 is reasonable, but I can't try that out until the new bolts get here. When I got it the rear was set somewhere around 15 degrees which seems a little extreme and gets the boot heel way out there. Definitely will be bringing a wrench the first time I get to actually try it out so that adjustments can be made on the fly.

Haven't ever tried 0/0 even on my monoskis, wonder what that would feel like. My snow skis are all beer league race skis at 1/3 so I'm set up to tune that easily. This will be used on MN icepack. I don't snowboard, so I'm not sure what is common on them. Plan on getting the rear binding as close to 0 as I can stand so that it is more like my waterski.

Just purchased a Lacroix Contest 180 with TD1 bindings on it. Thing is in pretty decent shape overall except some rust on the tail edges. My inclination is to get it stoneground and reset the edges just so that I know what the starting point is for maintaining the edges. Curious what kind of base and side angles people normally run on a fairly skinny skwal? I run 1/3 on my skis, seems like that would be ok for the skwal as well. Still need to do some binding adjustments, but I need to wait until some new hardware gets here for the back binding. It has some washers and bolts instead of the countersunk allen heads and they don't clear my boot soles. Thanks Chuck