PSA: Inspect Your Nuts

[charliechocolate]

Mine are quite salty corroded.

 

[st_lupo]

This goes for everything!  Took apart a pair of F2 Race Titanium bindings this last season to swap out some shims and discovered that half of the flange on one of the t-nuts had completely broken off.

[frozzen]

I  take out the liner every time

[SnowFerret]

27 minutes ago, frozzen said:

I  take out the liner every time

Same here. I also rinse the outside sole of my shells at the end of the day if they've collected any dirt/salt/grime/etc.

[Pat Donnelly]

Happened to me once then I upgraded the stock bolts to stainless and coated the threads to prevent re-occurence.  Hex heads are better than a phillips head.

http://www.alpinecarving.com/parts.html

 

 

[queequeg]

6 hours ago, Pat Donnelly said:

Happened to me once then I upgraded the stock bolts to stainless and coated the threads to prevent re-occurence.  Hex heads are better than a phillips head.

http://www.alpinecarving.com/parts.html

 

 

I use hex for everything. Something else you can do is cap off the exposed metal parts of the t-nuts with silicone, to prevent the elements from getting to them.

[Eric Brammer aka PSR]

For replacement t-nuts, get Aircraft-grade Stainless, as it has to have a certain (not Chinese alchemy!) amount of Nickel IN it, not sprayed ON it. True too, with bolts, but, in this case, the T-nuts get the abuse of all the salts sweated from your stanky feet, plus what-ever puddles you walk thru. Chinese ignorance of established standards for manufacture have unintentionally caused many disasters, from little stuff like this, to the Oklahoma Mall Collapse in '86 ( where I was Very Aware of this while studying Architecture Design at that time! ).  But, we buy this Crap all the time now.  If Kissinger had only stayed home....

 

[1xsculler]

I checked my nuts...all was good....thanks for the tip...I never would have thought of it myself!

Edited May 1, 2017 by 1xsculler