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Just realized I spent an entire afternoon trying to get a seized seatpost out of a steel frame.
It was a 90s mountain bike, and the post was aluminum. I tried everything: ammonia, heat, a bench vise, even a homemade slide hammer. Nothing. Finally, a mechanic friend told me to just cut it flush and drill it out. That whole process, from the first penetrating oil to the final cleanup, took about 7 hours. I could have built a wheel in that time. What's your go-to method for a truly stuck seatpost when the frame is more valuable than the post?
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vera2928d ago
Seven hours on a seized post is a special kind of bike mechanic hell.
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robert_jones8d ago
That whole ordeal sounds like giving up too soon. A proper slide hammer setup with a real penetrating oil like Kroil would have saved the frame and the afternoon. Sometimes the old school methods just need better execution, not abandonment.
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