[CR]Stuck Seatpost

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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Emily=20O'Brien?= <emilyonwheels@emilysdomain.org>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:42:11 +0000
Subject: [CR]Stuck Seatpost

Apologies if anyone has suggested this, but have you tried ammonia? It will dissolve aluminum oxide without damaging your paint. It will take awhile to seep in and work, especially if you've poured lots of WD40 or liquid wrench in there too, but it does work. Try pouring on/around/in some ammonia a few times an evening for a few days or a week or two and see if you can budge it. It might take awhile to soak far enough in, but you've waited this long for your nostalgia bike so you can wait a little while longer.

Last question: how have you been trying to get the seatpost out? Have you used a vice yet, or just grabbed ahold of a saddle? If you don't have a big vice, you can try a storm drain. I got a stuck seatpost out that way once; I took off all the extra clamping hardware and stuck the top of the seatpost into a storm drain to keep it from turning, then turned the whole frame around it.

Good luck.

Emily O'Brien Medford, Massachusetts, USA


> Dear David:
> re seat post
> It's alloy, according to the specs I found online for this bike.
>
> Does that mean I am stuck with a bike in which I can't lower the
> seat? That stinks! (I didn't of course think to ask these questions,
> stuff that seemed pretty obvious, when corresponding with the guy I
> bought the bike from on ebay).
>
> I also don't have any of these chemicals, or a workshop, i'm just a
> pianist with a bike she wants to ride!
>
> Thinking after getting all these replies maybe I gotta not "do it
> myself" and bring it back to the shop.
>
> is this list for bike shop owners? I don't have any of the stuff
> people are mentioning, I'm just a humble, know-nothing newbie OTS
> rider, hope that's ok.

>

> --Julie