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OT: tele bindings 24-Aug-2012 At 11:18:24 PM james

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>You're not doing enough touring in Australia.
>My experience is touring = skiing pow 1% of the time then the rest it
>is ice, sastruggi, breakable crust, unbreakable crust or if I'm lucky,
>really heavy soft snow that I can't push around with my tele leg.
>I've got a set of second hand O1s which I've learned on this year and
>have been fine, But it's also all I know. They haven't ripped out yet.
>I put a little araldite on the mounting screws to be sure anyway. Also
>a little loctite (or did I use thread tape?) stopped the cartridges from
>unwinding when they flop around.

yeah I live in Canada... spring snow tends to be more variable, or rather the terrain that becomes safer in spring (eg: icefields, bigger peaks, above treeline stuff) often leads to variable snow, crusts, wind affected snow etc. Plenty of icey/crud to ski inbounds.

Cartridges unwind sometimes, but I don't find it a big deal to tighten them up occasionally. You can also put strapping tape round BOTH cartridges which stops them unwinding. I'm not sure loctite works when its getting frozen/thawed & wet/dry all the time. Plus there should be grease inside the cartridges on the springs.