Tag: stripped bolts

Some things in the backcountry realm are decidedly unsexy. The one topic we’re touching upon here is right up there with blown skins as the unsexiest of all—stripped binding screws. 

The mere thought of a stripped binding screw brings back the horrors of f-bombs past. In The High Route’s Bend HQ, we habitually do ski bench work on the heirloom kitchen table. I think the dogs are forever damaged from the virulent f-bombs tossed around each time I’ve attempted to loosen an overtightened T-20 screw, or subsequently stripped the overtightened T-20. Evidently, at the Wilson, WY HQ, the folks there “try pretty hard not to strip screws.”

We’ve all had issues with different drive type screws: Phillips Head, hex, Pozidriv, and Torx (the T in the T-20) are all guilty by association—it takes an overzealous screw tightener to over tighten the screw. In other words, user error happens. Here’s to helping solve the striped screw snafu.