Dynafit Bindings are fustrating.

and the third generation SL with the delrin throw piece with the funky gear and pawl for adjusting cable length which had a tendency to fail utterly in year one.

I hated that gear thing. Don forget the lifters with extra long screws that would gradually tear the core of your skis to shreds and rip out miles from nowhere. Or the cable guides that would spontaneously blow off the side of the binding. Thankfully he redeemed himself with the Hammerhead, although the HH has its quirks to be sure.

Q for the Dynafit abusers among us. Has anyone ever broken the toe-pincers? They seem pretty stout. That guy in Canada hung upside down from them in a crevasse (he was locked in tour mode) so theres one data point. I ask because it would seem trivial to build a block that inhibits forward pivoting of the boot to effectively create a "tele mode" for boots like the F3 and TX.That would be putting quite a lot of stress on those pincers, but it sounds like they might be able to handle it. I would love to have a tele mode for rolling tours or that perfect field of corn that just begs for a tele turn.

It will be sad to see you go back to work because you then may not have the time to craft and coax these lengthy threads out of almost nothing to work with... a pure work of art to be sure.

Thanks for the acknowledgement Ron but it's not that hard. Just combine the follwing nouns SUBARU, DYNAFIT, CRYSTAL SKI AREA with the follwing adjectives SUCK, FRUSTRATING, DANGEROUS etc. and all hell breaks loose.
Alas I will be going back to work soon and all this fun will come to an end.

As to the Canadian guides comments regarding the dynafit and 3 pin being the most reliable . I guess I defer to their superior knowledge but I find that surprising. Never, ever had a problem with Fritschi's. Could it be that the Fritschi users that the guides are basing their opinion upon are hucking and skiing harder because they are not on Dynafits and therefore causing more breakages?
Are large hucks possible on Dynafits?
THE BIG QUESTION: ARE DYNAFITS HUCKABLE?

Didn't Huckable already drop out of the race?

I hated that gear thing. Don forget the lifters with extra long screws that would gradually tear the core of your skis to shreds and rip out miles from nowhere. Or the cable guides that would spontaneously blow off the side of the binding. Thankfully he redeemed himself with the Hammerhead, although the HH has its quirks to be sure.

Q for the Dynafit abusers among us. Has anyone ever broken the toe-pincers? They seem pretty stout. That guy in Canada hung upside down from them in a crevasse (he was locked in tour mode) so theres one data point. I ask because it would seem trivial to build a block that inhibits forward pivoting of the boot to effectively create a "tele mode" for boots like the F3 and TX.That would be putting quite a lot of stress on those pincers, but it sounds like they might be able to handle it. I would love to have a tele mode for rolling tours or that perfect field of corn that just begs for a tele turn. 

Check this out Jerm:

www.wildsnow.com/?p=572#comments

So, yeah, entirely possible.  Pretty slick.  Not going to be a production binding, from all that I can see, but it's an interesting idea.

THE BIG QUESTION: ARE DYNAFITS HUCKABLE?

I watched a guy huck one of the cliffs on the Headwall in Tuckerman Ravine a few years ago.  It was probably a 40 footer onto medium hard corn.  He landed somewhat ugly, but his skis stayed on and he skied away to lively cheers from the lunch rocks audience, whose full attention he'd captured.  When he skied by, I was checking out his set up -- K2 AK Launchers mounted with TLT comforts.   I wondered if he'd put them in tour mode before launching, but couldn't tell.  Pretty impressive...

One thing I haven't seen mentioned in this thread so far that might be relevant:

If the sole of the boot wears down under the toe (too much scree walking etc) then it will not press down on the plastic "trigger" in the middle of the pincers and will fail to accomplish the desired clamping action. I believe Wildsnow has something about this, including a fix with, what else, duct tape!

Ahh yes, here it is: www.wildsnow.com/articles/dynafit_faq/dy..._faq1.html#wingclose