aluminum changes more than steel when it is heated or cooled. therefore freezing a stuck aluminum seat post in steel bike increases one chances conversely heating an aluminum bike with a steel seat post is going to advance your Chase. heating the frame and cooling the seat post would be recommended for bikes and seat posts of the same type.
--- On Sat, 8/30/08, Arlen Cooke shalidin@gmail.com wrote:
From: Arlen Cooke shalidin@gmail.com Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Frozen seatpost - stem removal tips by Jobst Brandt To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 11:43 PM
Hey, I have found that if you heat the steam with a torch and the Wack it with a hammer it should come loose. Or a monkey wrench works wounders.
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On Aug 31, 2008, at 12:08 AM, Ethan elabowitz@gmail.com wrote:
For a seatpost (or any aluminum part that fits into a steel tube), I would think one would prefer to cool down the offending aluminum seatpost rather than heat the (painted steel) seat tube.
Cool seatpost = smaller seatpost, ya?
I hear this can be done with a CO2 cartridge, but I've never had to try it.
Ethan Richmond, VA -- http://bikebuilding.blogspot.com
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:42 PM, joshua muir muirjoshua@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't see anything abut heat in there- I have had a fair bit of success heatng stuck joints, and pulling stuck aluminum stems and seat posts.
just don't overheat (or use the auluminum parts again).
josh
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:30 PM, dragonfly@mac.hush.com wrote:
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Kyle McKinley, I love that I can open an e-mail and read that anyone is someone's "favorite living bicycle thinker".
Thank you for having a catagory of "bicycle thinkers" in your head, for having favorites, and for having so many favorites that they must be subcatagorized into "living" and, presumably, "dead" 'bicycle thinkers'.
Reading your post cheered me up and made me feel that the world is a good place.
I think I'll go read Mr. Brandt on wheels right now. It just became the most important thing on my to-do list.
Kudos to all Americans for your historic Presidential slate-- Obama-Biden, McKinney-Clemente, Nader-Gonzalez, even McCain-Palin, despite the shudder that one gives me--has everyone seen the photos of Barak Obama riding his bike around Chicago like a regular commuter cyclist?
Sasha
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:48:30 -0400 kyle mckinley bicirider@gmail.com wrote:
Mr. Brandt is my favorite living bicycle thinker. His posting on wheels (fully catalogued on the web) make for incredibly interesting and entertaining reading. Unlike most everyone else out there, Brandt is a engineer, with no links to the industry. He's exactly the kind of grumpy old codger that we need in this scene, and I've never known him to be wrong. Thanks for these reposts... His gruff responses make me laugh out loud. -kyle
On 8/6/08, Mark Rehder mark@re-cycles.ca wrote:
Speaking of Jobst, he has an FAQ on Sheldon's site:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brandt/index.html
Lots of good reading (and opinions) there.
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