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To help with eliminating partial engagements... I believe the edge of the intec pin needs to be rounded over rather than the relativly sharp edges where the lead in chamfer (1) and ramp (2) meet the O.D. of the pin. This would go a long way to allowing the pin to center up more easily and be less likely to hang up on the inside edges of the receiver hole. Also... having the radius at the tip if the ramp (3) would mean less wear on the receiver lead in. These refinements would have minimal cost impact but I think would significantly increase our satisfaction with our bindings. intec pin.bmp

Hey, Shred... I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I heard that someone looking just like your girl was seen hanging out with a park monkey. She was sliding rails and bonking everything she came to. Heard she really liked tabletops. Just hoping your girl hasn't been taking any long weekends away from you. Crap.... I'm just jealous.

What is there to not understand? A weasle lied about his situation to drive a bargain, apparently with intent resell instantly at a profit, in effect screwing someone trying to be nice. I'd be really ticked off, too! Like others have stated, I'm also very OK with the ebb and flow of free market pricing here at BOL. However, misrepresenting yourself or your situation is NOT ok.

decades ago some friends and I did a short super 8 film in which a telephone conversation went bad. The first guy pushed a few buttons on his telephone and the handset on the other end blew up the other guy's head. Very crude production but it got some laughs.

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Have you ever wished you could shoot someone over the telephone? This happened to me today on a teleconference with people from different parts of the country. I made the point that even if something should be discovered during a minor test that we must continue forward at full speed without stopping and resolve the issue on the side as we move forward. Everyone agreed. Then, several minutes later, one of the people I answer to joined up on the telecon. Someone else on the phone tried to bring the late leader up to speed and said (my paraphrasing) '.... and like Brad said, if we see anything in the test today we should pause and think about it in order to...' After he stopped blabbering to catch his breath I jumped in and almost yelled 'wait a minute... that is NOT what I said....' and I went on to reiterate what everyone had agreed to. He then tried to explain how what he had just said did not misrepresent my instructions to the team. Hmmmmmm. find minor thing = pause & think vs. find minor thing = continue at full speed Because of the way the guy continued to say he wasn't wrong... if he had been at my facility I would have tracked him down and bludgened him severly. OK, maybe not... but I sure felt like I might. OK, rant is over. taking deep breaths. thinking happy thoughts. SES...

so... was putting the AX name on the board a hatchet job?:D

Hey, Scum-pond! Good to hear from you! Nope... "Rundown Mtn" is my home slope.

OMG OMG I cannot get the image out of my head! You and Bruce going at it on the chair! Not just once... but TWICE! Somebody kill me quick!

maybe I'm reading too much into your comment, but aren't pretty much all quality boards wood based... "metal" boards too, with a metal sheet being an additive ingredient rather than the basic structural element?

do you like messing around with waxing/tuning? If so... consider quality fixed angle guides.

I was wrong... it is motor driven. from website.

The folks on these machines look a lot like people using a piece of equipment I use for ski season called Fitter (made in Calgary as I recall). Its a side to side rocker with a rolling dolly on top that is restrained by bungie cords underneath. You adjust the number of cords to your weight and the type of workout. You stand on the dolly as if on skis and drive the dolly back and forth. Looks just like the videos with the exception of the snowboard stance, etc. I bet there are elastic cords under the track that the person is driving against... not motor driven.

Des Plaines, huh? How about a corn cob design?

I look at these recent disasters as pretty humbling. Mankind thinks its pretty hot stuff... masters of our world... and then this happens. It is so sad to see such suffering with really no where go to dodge it.

BINGO!!! I see a lot of kids with a helmet "on" but they are wearing it in a way that is totally ineffectual. Doing so may offer the parents a bit of peace of mind that they are 'doing the right thing' by having a helmet on their kid... but the potential for the child receiving the full protective benefits are very severly compromised. Kids deserve better from parents.

in some areas of engineering discipline when 'mil' is used folks are actually meaning 1/1000 of an inch (0.001). For example, in printed circuit design it it is common to hear "5 mil lines and spaces" which means circuit traces are .005 inch wide nominal and spaces between traces are .005 inch nominal. Same kind of thing for film thicknesses. When millimeters are the unit used... mm is the designation. Pat's earlier (since edited away) measurement of "3 mil" apparently was of the thickness of the steel sheet the receiver was stamped out of. 3mm x .03937 inch/mm = .118 inches..... which seems to make sense, but does not appear to be what Knowfish asked about. (EDIT: just went to my bookshelf and pulled out my Ryerson catalog. Pat's dimension seems to line up with 11 gauge Cold Rolled Steel sheet & coil )

Which still makes no sense as my TD bails measure 1/4" diameter (calculates to about 6.4 mm)

Is there a height difference between a TD3 'Standard' and 'Step-in' block? I'm using a TD2 toe block with a TD3 SI receiver. I just measured my TD3 standard toe and heel blocks and were just at 1/2 inch. I was using a cheap caliper, not the precision tool I keep at work, otherwise I would give you an answer accurate to .0001 I have no idea what Pat Donnelly is measuring.

back to the topic... I ski quite a bit around carvers when I make trips out west. I must admit that deep trenches can be quite the surprise if you do not expect them. I have learned to pay better attention to snow conditions right in front of me... especially when skilled trenchers are around. But I do not get thrown by the ruts... I know how to work with them. It is kind of like railroad tracks and bicycles. If you cross a track wrong it grabs you and throws you over. A skilled skier typically has no problem with our trenches. I believe it is the folks who have convinced themselves that they are skilled (when they are not) that are having the trouble. We need to face it.... there are a lot more of them than us. Resorts will protect where their big $$ comes from... and it ain't us.

So Titan... you are putting Sarah to work buffing out your wax?

You need to count 'FULL & PERFECT' thread engagement. The screws you show are fabricated using rolled threads which have the 1st thread & 1/2 not fully formed and only partially engaging the insert. These are not to be considered load-bearing threads. This is a failure waiting to happen. Maybe it could be better if you ground off the tip of the screw to expose good threadform (but do not add chamfer). I said it before about this board to its prior owner (no pun intended... ok, maybe it was) and I'll say it again. There is not enough margin there to safely use any of those inserts. Period.

So... no more Mr N.I.C.E. guys? Become the "DUKES of HAZARD" and everybody gets an orange armband with 01 on it ? <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

So... are you guys now the "DUKES of HAZARD" and everybody gets an orange armband with 01 on it ?

Absolutely super perspective. Maybe snow won't be her thing. That's OK too.