![]() In other words, a boot doesn’t have to be “non-conforming” to have dimensions that cause excessive gap above the original ZED stomp pad. That means a boot could still be “norm” and exceed the 1.5 mm gap needed to make ZED reliable. If you examine the ISO standard, you’ll see it allows 3 millimeters variance in boot heel height. These additional items should address any outstanding sizing needs at this time.”Ībove is okay, but odd. The optional stomp pads will be 1.5 mm and 3.0 mm higher than the standard ZED stomp pad that has shipped with all currently available ZED bindings. “To address the potential scenario where non-conforming boots are used with the ZED binding, G3 has developed two additional stomp pad height options which will be available on December 19, 2018. Of course, sometimes a company tries to save a buck by commotidizing its human resources and just cheaps out, too.įurther, G3 states the following in their service bulletin: Engineers seldom get to work in the same field they play at. In any case, it seems sadly likely that the guy doing the design (and moreso, the one analyzing the stress) did not know about the boot variation any more than the photographer knew that the designers had assumed the presence of a stomp pad. Or they may have ignored the variation in skis, so the whole thing only works some of the time-I'm just speculating here. Hopefully they gave themselves some margin and a 2.5 mm gap would have been fine. Tl/dr: the solution offered May be more effective than this one case makes it appear. Adding support below the boot changes the ski's flex along with redistributing the loads against the boot, so it's not impossible for that to be critical to their design. ![]() But it's worth noting that G3 may have found a mode of loading which replicates the failure and which has more interaction with the stomp pad than would be the case at the exact moment that OP's bindings failed. ![]() I know, this is a blame thread, so the above probably means nothing of ultimate significance. ![]() There's a distinct possibility that the bindings were compromised some time before the ultimate failure, resulting in tiny cracks that grew slowly until they were big enough to grow quickly. The exact mode of skiing at the time of failure may be a red herring. ![]()
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