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
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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.
>>
>> Mark Rehder
>> http://re-cycles.ca
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