I have a pair of Ski Trabs that have a botched mount job while mounting for NTN Freedom. I screwed it up last season and it's been collecting dust in the garage since it's not a needed ski but I should complete the mount sooner or later.
I'm trying to mount them with BF inserts and found two issues:
1) The wood quality around the underfoot area for mounting isn't that great. The wood is soft and when I first did it I swear I encountered a couple of voids. The skis are suppose to be regular wood underfoot for a strong mount.
2) Due to the wood quality, threading for inserts tend to drive the inserts very deep. This just exacerbates any misalignment problems.
My plan now is to back out the bad insert holes, plug them with a hardwood dowel w/ JB Weld + steel wool, let cure and then redrill and reglue with JB Weld+steel wool. I would think that plugging this way should be fairly bomber, esp since there are 6 screws holding the NTN Freedom down to each ski.
Still, it makes me a little nervous about the mount. Should I trust these cores? I did buy them at a discount new but still fairly expensive at the time ($400+). I'd consider selling them but now one of the skis has like 20+ holes in it.
I'm trying to mount them with BF inserts and found two issues:
1) The wood quality around the underfoot area for mounting isn't that great. The wood is soft and when I first did it I swear I encountered a couple of voids. The skis are suppose to be regular wood underfoot for a strong mount.
2) Due to the wood quality, threading for inserts tend to drive the inserts very deep. This just exacerbates any misalignment problems.
My plan now is to back out the bad insert holes, plug them with a hardwood dowel w/ JB Weld + steel wool, let cure and then redrill and reglue with JB Weld+steel wool. I would think that plugging this way should be fairly bomber, esp since there are 6 screws holding the NTN Freedom down to each ski.
Still, it makes me a little nervous about the mount. Should I trust these cores? I did buy them at a discount new but still fairly expensive at the time ($400+). I'd consider selling them but now one of the skis has like 20+ holes in it.
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