A complete, easy to follow along tutorial for setting up your Daymakers Alpine Ski Touring Adapters. This tutorial covers setting up adapters that may come to you "presetup" meaning they have already been sized for your boot from us directly, or setting up adapters that are not presized yet. Contained you'll see how to adjust sizing, tell the difference between gripwalk soles and downhill soles, proper heel bail tension, and shim installation for bindings with adjustable AFD's.
This tutorial is for adapters purchased in Fall 2020 to current.
See the following timecodes to hop into a particular section:
00:00 intro.
01:05 Spare hardware, shims, tools.
01:39 Downhill ski boot soles vs Gripwalk soles.
02:20 How to determine your BSL (boot sole length).
02:32 How the sizing of the adapter works.
03:20 How to setup the heel bail/clamp to attach to your ski boot. Proper tensioning.
05:25 What a proper fit in your binding looks like & Elevator use.
05:50 How to properly put the adapter in your skis and clamp to the boot on snow.
06:50 How to adjust the toe bail location for Gripwalk ski boots.
08:15 Troubleshooting - a "presetup" adapter does not fit your ski bindings. How to adjust the length of the adapter.
13:19 How to install the included shims if the adapter moves up and down in your ski binding.
17:25 How to setup an Adapter that came to me without prior sizing.
21:30 Pivot Bolt installation and proper torque.
Notes
*In Fall 2021 we replaced our previous toe bail system of having 1 specific length for downhill soles and 1 length for gripwalk soles with just 1 toe bail that will work with both downhill and gripwalk ski boots. If you have the gripwalk toe bails with black rubber "bail keepers" attached to them, install the toe bail in the rear slot of the 2 front slots on the top plate.
*Toe Lug Shims came standard with adapters starting Fall 2021. Prior to this, your daymaker kit did not come with the shims. Please email us if you need them -- info@daymakertouring.com