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Everything was lame there. They called the screw broken, they couldn't even explain the problem correctly. Didn't quote how much it would cost to repair, didn't even say whether it's repairable or not. Just "the screw is broken". Duh. Thanks a million, it was worth a drive there to get this expert opinion. And the reason why they may want to actually take a break from mounting the skis that you've purchased from them is some extra money that they could've earned right there.

That's beyond lame.

Oh, this has totally hijacked my evening. Hate you all. My favorite:

Wow, good night time stiff. I think I've briefly seen Salty in this video. On a road mountain bike and 1:45.

Yeah, I guess I made an amazing "discovery" that different widths of the same model can be quite different. IDK why it came to me as a big surprise, I knew all along that different widths of RTM have different number and different kinds of metal layers. I guess, the really weird part was that up to 88mm Head was putting graphene under the boot of Monsters, and after 88mm they started putting it in the completely different position, i.e. in the tips and tails. I guess the takeaway from this is that it's all nice to look at the construction of the skis and marvel the engineering genius, to an extent one can even compare things that are easy to quantify like the number and thickness of titanal layers, but in the end it boils down to reviews and test drives. Everything else is not very useful in picking a ski. And I'm not even talking about "expert reviews" here, in most of the cases those experts will just repeat what's in the booklet like "this awesome ski has a lightweight foam core that is reinforced with a layer of a titanal, which is stronger and yet lighter than steel and serves to make high speed ride smooth and stable". After hearing stuff like this you'll think that "wow, this really is an amazing stuff full of wonders", but in reality what he just said is "this is a dead ski with no wood and a lousy 0.4mm layer of metal that's supposed to fix the shortcomings of the cheap foam". Because the real stuff will have a sandwich construction with two different kinds of wood plus two 0.7mm layers of metal. Same goes for graphene. Ooooh, a one-atom-thick strongest material on Earth. Yeah, but where exactly is it? How much? Does it really resist twisting of the ski or only stretching it? I'm tired of this. I'll go and buy Renouns.

Somebody enlighten me on the lingo please.

Wasn't someone here going to apply as a ski instructor at Blue recently? Book him for a full weekend, and you'll ski GS like Bode Miller!

You have same boot size as me. How about buying that Renoun instead of a bike that you'll still not be able to size properly?

Interesting business. I think investing in one is like buying GO bonds. Backed by the taxing power people of the state. How much per tombstone?

I should've said: "There goes the Sally's thread", if it would make it any clearer.

There goes Sally's neighborhood.

Yeah, I sometimes struggle to find meaning or reason behind some posts here.

Who, me? I don't think he would find inner strength to do it.

It's interesting, right? They claim a number that's 10x more than what other companies claim when they talk about their improvements. No, I don't know how they measured it and if they ever measured it. Take a look at the video below. It's interesting to watch it by itself, just to see how skis are made in general, but something also tells me that those guys don't really have access to any lab equipment. What speaks in their favor are the reviews and their return policy. I've seen a few interesting mentions of other companies dampening methods lately. E.g. some say that a university student tested the effect of Head's intellifibers in snowboards and found that instead of damping vibrations as they were supposed to, they only exacerbated them. On the other hand putting a dampening device (like that RTM UVO) indeed helps dampening first mode of vibrations around the bindings area and is indeed improving the edge grip.

That's half the fun.

LOL, no idea, honestly. They're awfully expensive, but take a look at @SallyCat, she justified buying a 2018 pair of 84mm RTMs, and it's only one step more toward justifying a Renoun.

Renouns are the new breed of skis from a tiny company that everybody's raving about elsewhere. Instead of going the usual route of overloading a ski with tons of metal and graphene to make it more stable, rigid and hence skiable at higher speeds, they loaded it with a non-newtonian polymer that's normally soft, but becomes stiffer when abused. This creates a ski that can be both soft and rigid, depending on how you drive it. You can carve slowly, you can fly fast. Hence all the hype. And they do have a 100-day no questions asked return policy.

It's not a hologram. They just have the fiberglass layer turning up under the bindings to get some rigidity. Close to what Head does with graphene on M88. And an UVO attachment on the tips to dampen vibrations. Like those rubber dampeners on axles.

Still. Close to Renouns, and those can be tested for 100 days, so the point of you testing and liking RTMs doesn't apply. You could've tested Renouns whole season and then gotten on proven RTMs in spring if you didn't like them.

They're swapping the skis for her, what better support do you expect from a reputable shop?

Too bad. I was gonna ask for your feedback on them this weekend. If you got them with only some discount like you've said, have you considered Renoun? Has got to be close in price.

2018 RTM 84, 172?

I think with all the swapping and trying it's too late for a loctite now. So it's either drill bigger hole, put new threads and use bigger screw, or drill, put some thread repair coil in it and reuse old screw. Either way this will affect a resale. Where did you score these RTMs?

Oh, it's soooo important to pay for the final adjustments. Rocket science. Is it the bolt that's stripped or where it's being screwed into? It's not clear from your picture where exactly that bolt is, but if it's anything like those Fischers or Atomics that I've seen, then it's not really load bearing. You'll be screwed only if it completely falls out. With that said, if the skis were bought locally, I'd just exchange them. If the screw is not too loose, I'd use blue loctite and then still check it every time I go skiing. Otherwise just create new threads and find a bigger bolt in HD.

That follows a prior storm-related topic.