Hey, so I am getting ready for the next season. The shop manager for my local shop made a deal with me where he adjusted my skis for my kids and I every year for free. He did this because I bought most of my gear from him and sent several friends to him. He just left the company and the new management is not having it.
I lost my free ride, and they want $60 per pair of skis, sticker shock. So I am wondering what do you all do? I have 3 kids and myself, passing skis down each year as the kids get older. This is $240 a year, that's a one night stay somewhere. Geeze... So a little about me, I do everything myself, I have to, to save money in this single income family. Change my own timing belt, replace my own pool liner, no contractor touches my house, no mechanic touches my cars which are purring with 219k and 179k miles. I'm even my own architect... so I don't swallow $240 for binding tests easily.
I can set the boots, calculate the proper DIN, and adjust the bindings, I know how to do that. What I can't do is prove they are calibrated correctly, i.e. test them that they will work at the torque they are supposed to. That's all I want the shop to do, just test it! and they want $60. There is no other game in Oklahoma City.
Safety is number one for me, but I am wondering if binding safety is overblown like "change your oil every 3000 miles". For your car, follow the engineering tech pubs (users manual), change oil every 7,500 miles. What is the testing requirements on bindings? Is it every year? or is it every X years?
Here are my solutions... Please advise here, anything I am not considering?
I lost my free ride, and they want $60 per pair of skis, sticker shock. So I am wondering what do you all do? I have 3 kids and myself, passing skis down each year as the kids get older. This is $240 a year, that's a one night stay somewhere. Geeze... So a little about me, I do everything myself, I have to, to save money in this single income family. Change my own timing belt, replace my own pool liner, no contractor touches my house, no mechanic touches my cars which are purring with 219k and 179k miles. I'm even my own architect... so I don't swallow $240 for binding tests easily.
I can set the boots, calculate the proper DIN, and adjust the bindings, I know how to do that. What I can't do is prove they are calibrated correctly, i.e. test them that they will work at the torque they are supposed to. That's all I want the shop to do, just test it! and they want $60. There is no other game in Oklahoma City.
Safety is number one for me, but I am wondering if binding safety is overblown like "change your oil every 3000 miles". For your car, follow the engineering tech pubs (users manual), change oil every 7,500 miles. What is the testing requirements on bindings? Is it every year? or is it every X years?
Here are my solutions... Please advise here, anything I am not considering?
- What is the binding test interval requirement?
- I could adjust them myself. This would assume that they are safe because they were safe last year. This I can't prove. Don't some of you adjust your own bindings annually? And how do you test them?
- Find a shop close to where I am going (12 hours away), hope I make the appointment, and hope they honor it with same hour service? I tested this for waxing in early April, (usually do it myself) but this is Late December, already called and they are 3 weeks out.
- Just bite the bullet and pay the $240.