Stuck Seat Post
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PatrickPending
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
twobiker
New Member
- Location
- South Hams Devon
WD 40, if its not carbon
PpPete
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chandler's Ford
what material is the seat post - and what is the frame ?
YahudaMoon
Über Member
If its a steel frame you can do it with fire. You will need a repaint job obviously and you can de-weld the welds though I doubt it would happen.
If you cant get hold of a oxy acetylene kit or decent blow torch you can do it in the kitchen
Remove one of the rings on one of the biggest gas hob so you have one big jet flame (full power)
Heat the frame where the seat post is stuck all the way down 6 inch 7 inch ? or however far down its stuck. You want the frame glowing red ! takes about 5 - 10 minutes ?
Leave it to cool down then try removing it. It will fall out
If you cant get hold of a oxy acetylene kit or decent blow torch you can do it in the kitchen
Remove one of the rings on one of the biggest gas hob so you have one big jet flame (full power)
Heat the frame where the seat post is stuck all the way down 6 inch 7 inch ? or however far down its stuck. You want the frame glowing red ! takes about 5 - 10 minutes ?
Leave it to cool down then try removing it. It will fall out
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
best of luck with that , i had to have one cut out once took lbs 8 hours worth of fine sawing down the stem then peeling it out strip by strip , wont tell you how much they charged me .
just had same fun with handle bar stem , ended up drikking that out as last resort
just had same fun with handle bar stem , ended up drikking that out as last resort
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
I had a post stuck as a kid and drilled the top of the post and shoved a piece of rod through it and walloped it a few times with a club hammer to loosen it.
and the moral is - Lots of decent grease ( or if carbon the blood of unicorns) .
and the moral is - Lots of decent grease ( or if carbon the blood of unicorns) .
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
I had an aloy seatpost stuck in a steel frame and was able to get it out with the use of a blow lamp (I didn't get it red hot) and what I now know to be a pipe wrench which is a wrench that will grip on to cylindrical objects...like pipes for instance. I think I was probably a bit lucky though after hearing some of the horror stories.
Zoiders
New Member
- Location
- Ice Station Zebra
There are vices and then there are vices.
You wont get far with a bog standard Record 1 ton vice.
You wont get far with a bog standard Record 1 ton vice.
