Official Frankenbinder Thread

 

Solid orange toe straps - probably from Contacts

 

Blue Force "trim" pieces, the little ones that attach on the sides of the baseplates.

 

I heard anything involving Burton is a sh!tty combination.

if you buy cyan forces ill take the highbacks.

 

Dude.  If you buy new Forces, and they happen to be blue, I'd be interesting in working out a deal.  Possibly some pieces from something I have to make up for your missing blue ones, and then result in a "discount" on the Contacts?  We'll see.  I really want some blue parts, and the Contacts aren't doing me any good here.

 

I can't tell from experience since I don't own them personally, but just looking at them tells me they are.  Have the same three holes for the highback rotation, and the straps mount the same as everything else.  Can't imagine they'd make a whole new design for one new binder.  Pretty sweet, tho.   Those highbacks are so rad.

Its as simple as removing the old strap and adding the new one, they are very compatible.  (use every thing union (ratchet, ladder, screws etc.) except the strap itself) 

 

The screw that mounts the board to the binding is stripped?  Is the head stripped out, meaning the screwdriver won't turn it, or is the screw actually spinning inside the hole?  The first option would be much less worse than the latter. 

 

To get a stripped-head screw out, there's really only two options (imo):

 

1.  Get a bigger screwdriver, like a #3 phillips.  Sometimes it's just a matter of making a much better connection between the two.

 

or

 

2.  Get something called an "easy-out" (most common it seems) or a screw extractor (see pic below).  It looks like a drill bit but the threads are backwards.  You drill a small hole (with a regular drill bit) into the screw itself, then tap this thing into said hole.  The top has a square head that you use to turn the easy-out.  The threads are backwards to bite into the material of the screw and hopefully back it out of the hole, if it's not too stuck.  It's a fairly simple task on the surface, but it can quickly go south if you don't get a good enough bite initially.  You can keep drilling the hole bigger and retrying but you'll eventually run out of screw.  If they'll do it for you at ACE, I'd take 'em up on it.

 

Screw extractors:

 

 

Im just gonna throw this out there. Was gonna grab it myself but it would just be greedy to have 2

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Capita-Snowboard-5-ft-Shapeshifter-Travis-Parker-/180571275216?pt=AU_Skiing_Snowboarding&hash=item2a0ae2ffd0#ht_519wt_1141