Field repair of pulled bindings

Extra srcews are a mandatory item in my kit. I carry a couple couple mini hose clamps and a 4 " piece of slotted ski pole for pole repairs. Looks like a I better carry a radiator hose sized clamp now !

I already carry a voile strap and another strap and the  Brooks Range multitool   that is quite handy, but that big clamp is now on my list (actually 2 of them, for different size skis).

How about 5min epoxy in the old holes? Carrying some slightly larger diameter screws in the repair kit might be a good idea too.

This is the model of a 5/32" hex-driven drill bit I was able to find in the local Home Depot:
www.ryobitools.com/catalog/accessories/d...g_and_driving/AR2050
I tried drilling a test hole on an old ski -- absurdly slow, but would eventually work.
(And of course for most spring & summer tours, would be faster just to walk down in dejected defeat rather than spend forever with a field repair. After all, that's how climbers get down on every tour -- our worst-case gear nightmare is their baseline experience!)

I can see skiing down on the metal hose clamp but I would think the voile strap would hang up below the ski/ get cut by the edges/ rip off and cause your attached toe to come off and cause a crash. Granted in a pinch it would be better than nothing and I would try it as well but the idea of epoxy and new OVER SIZED screws makes more sense to me. Keep in mind that 5min epoxy is not fully hard after 5min but merely set up. It still takes hrs to cure fully.

Also the idea of drilling and placing t nuts through the base seems like a plausible idea. Although it would take some time to drill through the ski and your ski would be pretty trash afterward (although you could re sink the t nuts deeper and build ptex over them back home).

I'm newer than I thought here but how are people breaking the bindings off the skis? Were they miss mounted in the first place? Is it only the toe? I've seen this in bounds before but never back country (aside from pros)

I like Lowell's hose clamp idea.

I think I'll get one or two to carry as a backup to my primary screw hole repair solution, MR GRIP .


(more info on Mr. Grip HERE ).

I've used Mr Grip with great success before to make fast and permanent repairs to stripped and oversized screw holes not only on skis but many other applications as well. It is nothing more that thin metal with perforations on both sides (like a two sided roughing tool for an inner tube repair kit). You cut thin strips (less than 1/8th of an inch wide for binding screw holes) of this material the length of the screw hole (I try to get 3 strips into the screw hole if possible) and stick them down into the screw hole and then reinsert the screws. So along with a Mr Grip strip or two I carry extra screws and a small pair of shears to cut the thin strips of Mr Grip perforated metal and then cut them to the length of the screw hole.

I honestly believe, based on my experiences so far, that the Mr. Grip fix would be almost as fast as the hose clamp, and (of course, if it works) would have the obvious advantage of not going under the base of the ski. I also carry a couple of those huge zip ties (most of you know the ones I’m talking about – the ones the cops use for handcuffs ) which might also be a useful option.