Re: [CR]Seatpost or frozen stem removal made easy

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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:05:31 -0800 (PST)
From: "Ted E. Baer" <wickedsky@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Seatpost or frozen stem removal made easy
To: JOE HUGHES <rotab@msn.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <BAY114-F2905E3EDB8E211EF5969D7AF9E0@phx.gbl>


I'm not sure if the Coca-Cola trick works anymore. I believe Coca-Cola lowered the acidity of their beverage to almost nil not too long ago. Maybe that's why the acids are not flushing kids out like they use to and kids are so darn fat these days....

Has anyone ever tried vinegar and baking soda? How about explosives?

Ted Baer
Palo Alto, CA


--- JOE HUGHES wrote:


> When faced with a frozen seatpost or stem
> is is easiest to remove with Coca Cola. Remove
> the BB and invert frame. Remove pinch bolt for
> seatpost. Tape around the seat cluster/post junction
> to prevent Coke leakage. You need to pour one Coke,
> reuglar in red can only, down into the seat tube of
> inverted
> frame. Let sit for 24 hours. Dump Coke and repeat.
> This may
> take up to 10-12 days but has never failed. Coke Red
> Can is
> only one that works. NOT Pepsi, or diet or any sissy
> versions.
> Each day while changing Coke try to twist the
> seatpost with
> some cheap junk saddle on it. You may Kroil at this
> time from
> the top but I have found Kroil to be fairly useless
> unless heat is
> applied with propane torch. Once the offending piece
> turns at
> all, keep turning and spray some Kroil in at that
> point. You may wish
> to put post in vice and really hork on it if you
> don't mind ruining
> the seatpost. Works same on stem with inversion,
> tape and loosen
> any locknuts on headset and remove expander
> bolt/wedge and tape bolt hole
> too.
> One must be patient. I have had to pour Coke in
> through a water bottle
> braze on before and that even worked after 10 days.
> If you are able to
> change
> Coke every 12 hours this will speed things up by
> about %30. This is all way
> easier on a frame that is stripped of all parts
> except the stuck ones. Make
> a cheap
> rear end stiffener/bracket out of all thread with 4
> nuts and 4 washers to
> keep rear
> dropouts from flexing about while getting
> neanderthal on it. %100 success
> rate over
> 30 years.
> P.S. Cutting out frozen Dura Ace BBs is another
> story and fugly compared to
> Coke. We
> see it all the time. Ditto frozen Campy BBs but that
> is mere flange/chisel
> session to relieve
> pressure and hork in a Tacx BB tool and they come
> right out. Nothing is
> anything after you
> done it a few times.
> Joe Hughes
> Denver, CO
>
>
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