It's all lies!

[tommaguzzi]

Don't do the ammonia thing.

thank you

if this works i will buy your book.
i am busy this weekend but i will get on it sometime next week. i was reluctant to start cutting the tube becuse the frame i perfectly good but only for someone of my dwarflike proportions and i didnt want to totally ruin it.
your method makes sense to me and i will not hold you resposable if i fails.
wish me luck.

 

[dfthe1]

thank you

if this works i will buy your book.
i am busy this weekend but i will get on it sometime next week. i was reluctant to start cutting the tube becuse the frame i perfectly good but only for someone of my dwarflike proportions and i didnt want to totally ruin it.
your method makes sense to me and i will not hold you resposable if i fails.
wish me luck.

Now I'm down into the tube, I can see that I did a *terrible* job of sawing through the post. While I was all the way through at the top, the blade has barely scored it further down. Which is why it didn't work!

 

[dfthe1]

When I was young, I never dared dream that, one day, my Friday nights would look like this.

 

[tommaguzzi]

6 pack hammer and screwdriver.

Gorilla engineering ;-)

You should try a lump hammer though

 

[biggs682]

When I was young, I never dared dream that, one day, my Friday nights would look like this.

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good luck , still got that drill bit

 

[biggs682]

The proper method has been described here. You'll find it somewhere in the archives. Search for something I posted with the words "sardine can" in there and you'll get it.

Don't do the ammonia thing.

here you go

Prevention is better than a hernia - stopping an aluminium seatpost sticking in a steel frame

 

[winjim]

Not sure if it worked or not, but something the chap I bought my last bike off was in the middle of doing when I went round:

Drill holes on opposite sides of the seatpost and insert metal bar, one long enough to give you decent leverage. Twist.