Re: [CR]I.D. old trackie

(Example: Framebuilding:Paint)

From: "Neill Currie" <neill_currie@comcast.net>
To: <otis@otisrecords.com>, <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]I.D. old trackie
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:52:39 -0400


Otis wrote: ""Not even sure if that's possible, would probably take months of soaking to just break the post loose,"" --------------------- Only help I can be is this story. Found an OT bike in the trash with a stuck post. Tried ALL the usual methods, including extra friends and a large bench-mounted vice. Couldn't budge it. The bench did separate itself from the wall though under maximal grunting. Didn't want to saw it out. Anyway, did a little googling, found someone who'd freed a post finally with Coke, yes, Coke. So...I removed the BB, inverted bike, emptied a can of regular Coke up/down the seat-tube, let it marinate overnight. Pulled it right out the next day, by myself, with just my right hand. The post was all eaten away on the frame/post interface(presumably from the "secret" ingredients/acid in the Coke, but the seattube was untouched!! So, if that post of yours is Aluminium, it MAY be far less work than you think. This trick doesn't work on a steel post however, which that might be. Neill

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