ye got to be the worst video or one of them on youtube, why on earth do people think putting some constant droning sound on a video will make it better, if he had done the strobe it would be top worst video ever
Thank you!! I will do this with my 1948 Monark Silver King! the post has been stuck for AT LEAST 40 years and was pinched so bad that the seat couldn't be installed! you rock, great video!
bcburdoa I hope so too! I might end up drilling a hole into the seatpost and put a nut and bolt on it so a pair of channel locks fan grab it, for I don't have a pipe wrench.
Hi, I unseized a seat post with caustic soda but didn't clean the inside of the seat tube enough. The NEW seat post has now got seized! It's mad! Thanks for your video. I'll try your method. Good work!
When your workshop is next to 100 demons that are trying to claw their way out of a bagpipe in the hull of a ship that is breaking apart at the end of a runway, this happens…
I had a very stuck seatpost (saddle still attached) on a 20-year old bike that I thought I was going to have to use a blowtorch on. Ended up breaking it a tiny bit loose by using an 18" adjustable wrench on the square part at the top and somewhere upwards of 100 pounds of force on the end of the wrench. Then to get it out, I clamped onto it with my locking pliers so that the handle stuck out in the opposite direction of the nose of the saddle and continuously twisted it while pulling up. Still took a lot of force, but I eventually got it out.
I was surprized to see this work. I am going to guess it works by the inside tube being slightly crushed by the outside tube, due to differential expansion and contraction. I was expecting the corrosion on the tube to look very bad, and it really wasn't.
@Redshift21 you could always turn on closed captioning :) The words in the video are not the important part, This could have been a silent video and still gotten the technique across
We just had the same trouble a week ago and I used a rosebud on the stem heated it and it pulled right out. Got to be careful not to get so hot to hurt the paint, but that hot.
@PreCodeMovies That is a good question. I am just using a new seatpost, but I don't know if there will be more or less of a problem with that. I will observe and if I find anything I will let you know. I hope it works for you!
Just done mine. I didn't have a blowtorch, so I hit the post into the frame a few mm, which loosened it a bit. Then used a pipe wrench. I was trying for days with different tools.
So how would you remove an alloy seat post from a carbon fibre frame mines well stuck tried WD40, heating the frame with hot air gun. I even got some ice spray to freeze the alloy stem but its well stuck. Any ideas or a video
brilliant, I've seen videos of people hammering, using wrenches with a long pipe attached to the handle without success. very hard work also. the bike shops must have tried every other method. I really enjoyed this video. well done again... I wonder does copper grease on the seat post prevent it from seizing ???.
Theres a similar technique old skool car mechanics use on rusted bolts but as it's cooling down they hold a burning candle near it or something. The idea is that as it's cooling down it sucks in some wax which apparently loosens it up no end.
I put the post in a vice and twisted the bike worked a treat and may I say what talented musicians you have in the background is that the track nails down a blackboard ?
if you heat both the seat post and the frame and then quickly cool tim down you might get the seat post out, but the frame will become more brittle and thus weaker.You could instead use lye to get rid of the aluminum seat post and leave the frame intact, but maybe scarifying part of the paintwork.
Thanks for the video, I need to do this on my mtb, it has been stuck since 2004, but I never cared to take it out. Now I need to replace the post. How long did it take you from start to finish? Heat it up for 10 min, cool, heat it up for another 10 min, cool?
If the seatpost fell completely into the bikeframe's post and is lodged completely in there, seat not attached and it is not sticking out whatsoever. How would I go about getting it out?
I got mine unstuck by using a wrench to catch the now flattened head of the seat pin. and a hammer to hit the wrench, Took me about 60 to 100 blows. The seat pin got flattened by trying to hammer it into the frame.
wow, you´re working with a blow-torch under a wooden ceiling? Hats off, 2:05 and you were nearly burning doen the house above.... Next: You did it the wrong way round: Heaten the external Tube, cool the internal tube.
freeclimb64 You'r relying on the differential expansion of the two metals to break the corrosion joint. Heating the outside may not be as useful as it might appear as the aluminium seat post will expand more quickly than the (steel?) frame. And it will spoil the paint. What's with "a blowtorch under a wooden ceiling"? How do plumbers plumb in a house, loft, airing cupboard or floor void?
freeclimb64 Hey-- Leave the man alone. No chance to ceiling could catch fire, and it worked. And the increased expansion of the aluminum is the whole point. Once expanded it will break the bind once the aluminum goes back to it's increased de-spansion once cooled to equal temperature. It's enough to unseize the coupling and he proved it. It's science..
@PLBIV you said humboldt.... meaning chicago.... meaning that's where i live. i have a seat post stuck in a bike that i'm restoring and ive been tryin to get it out for like a month... nevermind
im looking to do this to my bmx because i got a old 05 free agent and just recently i wanted new parts so i got a new frame and then i trying puting in my old free agent seat post and it was to big i told my friend he said hill put it in so i said ok then he put on lube and it whent all the way in and poped in place so now i wanna paint it now it doesn't get out and he did everything put on lube get a wrench put it on the post and hit it with a hammer so do you think this is safe for my frame
@PLBIV OOOOOOHHHHHH.... It all clicks now. Unfortunately when I started grad school I left the city and moved out to the boonies. Plus, you can totally do this, I have faith in you :)
I have a specialized fuse 2 and I have tried everything to get my seat post out, its like it was glued in, sometimes I feel like it want meant to cone out but that's a dumb thought, I've watched endless videos Alpo t my bike and Ive never seem the stock seat post in any videos, are there any other methods I could try before doing this one?
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This drone/noise music in the background is really emphasizing the horror of stuck seatpost!
Something out of a Frankenstein movie......! IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE....!
music isnt distracting enough .. u should redo this vid and have a strobe effect on the video as well
ye got to be the worst video or one of them on youtube, why on earth do people think putting some constant droning sound on a video will make it better, if he had done the strobe it would be top worst video ever
anlacombe.... LMFAO... I KNOW RITE!!! But even still, thank u for the clip💕
did he put it on purpose? some kind of vibration?
Add screaming fans as well. I feel like I'm in a rock concert.
He wasn't trying hard enough. There were a couple of spots where I could make out what he was saying.
I loved the background music, drowned out every word you said, thanks.
Your solution is great, but the background music is really painful and too loud. Can hardly hear the voice.
Video was good, background noise was "not helpful"
You people who complained about the background sound are nit pickers who forgot the main point being the removal of the stuck seat post. Good video.
jim rodgers it's just annoying as it's soooo loud!!!
Thank you!! I will do this with my 1948 Monark Silver King! the post has been stuck for AT LEAST 40 years and was pinched so bad that the seat couldn't be installed! you rock, great video!
+Lucas Winders thanks man. Hope it works well for you
bcburdoa I hope so too! I might end up drilling a hole into the seatpost and put a nut and bolt on it so a pair of channel locks fan grab it, for I don't have a pipe wrench.
thanks dude, I removed a frozen hadle bar stem on a very rusty and old raleigh using this method! Very appreciated.
Awesome soundtrack! Really makes the video.
It's the music that frees you! This worked for me on a 1989 Kona MTB.
Thank you!!!!!!
Awesome, glad it was useful
hard hear what you was explaining because the back ground music or sound
I must be the only one who loved the background noise, keep up the good work buddy.
Hi, I unseized a seat post with caustic soda but didn't clean the inside of the seat tube enough. The NEW seat post has now got seized! It's mad! Thanks for your video. I'll try your method. Good work!
Oh, that music really makes a good difference!
that noise is killer for my hangover
Lmao dude. What a music choice
When your workshop is next to 100 demons that are trying to claw their way out of a bagpipe in the hull of a ship that is breaking apart at the end of a runway, this happens…
I had a very stuck seatpost (saddle still attached) on a 20-year old bike that I thought I was going to have to use a blowtorch on. Ended up breaking it a tiny bit loose by using an 18" adjustable wrench on the square part at the top and somewhere upwards of 100 pounds of force on the end of the wrench. Then to get it out, I clamped onto it with my locking pliers so that the handle stuck out in the opposite direction of the nose of the saddle and continuously twisted it while pulling up. Still took a lot of force, but I eventually got it out.
great result good vid apart from the background music thanks for making and posting here YT
bcburdoa no worries my boy have a nice day
@twbol Glad I could be of assistance! Like I said, this is only for seats where nothing else works
I was surprized to see this work. I am going to guess it works by the inside tube being slightly crushed by the outside tube, due to differential expansion and contraction. I was expecting the corrosion on the tube to look very bad, and it really wasn't.
Did the same after I have watch this video. removed 2 extremely stucked seatpost successfully. THNX!
Not bad, l have done three stems with muriatic acid worked great. Will be attempting my first seatpost soon.
@Redshift21 you could always turn on closed captioning :) The words in the video are not the important part, This could have been a silent video and still gotten the technique across
What was that background noise?!! Sounds like really bad psychedelic feedback!
You're my new hero! I was sceptical. Imagine my surprise? Thank you.
Jim/Anaheim
very helpfull video but I felt like I was in the 1970's on a bad trip with that music :)
We just had the same trouble a week ago and I used a rosebud on the stem heated it and it pulled right out. Got to be careful not to get so hot to hurt the paint, but that hot.
@PreCodeMovies That is a good question. I am just using a new seatpost, but I don't know if there will be more or less of a problem with that. I will observe and if I find anything I will let you know. I hope it works for you!
Thanks, but can't stand the back ground music!
Interesting and quite logical solution to the problem Dylan....thanks for uploading the vid buddy...
its mikey from orange county choppers,lol.good vid.
Also I'd try the heat method in the stuck seatpost if the pipe wrench and cheater bar don't initially work.
Just done mine. I didn't have a blowtorch, so I hit the post into the frame a few mm, which loosened it a bit. Then used a pipe wrench. I was trying for days with different tools.
Great video
The music made it!!
Seized seatposts is the thing in the past.
Seized quill stem is the big deal
So how would you remove an alloy seat post from a carbon fibre frame mines well stuck tried WD40, heating the frame with hot air gun. I even got some ice spray to freeze the alloy stem but its well stuck. Any ideas or a video
brilliant, I've seen videos of people hammering, using wrenches with a long pipe attached to the handle without success. very hard work also. the bike shops must have tried every other method. I really enjoyed this video. well done again... I wonder does copper grease on the seat post prevent it from seizing ???.
Theres a similar technique old skool car mechanics use on rusted bolts but as it's cooling down they hold a burning candle near it or something. The idea is that as it's cooling down it sucks in some wax which apparently loosens it up no end.
the bonnie situation
Your method worked for me , many thanks for the info & you tube clip .
Bro this was really helpful only confirms my theories! Thanks
I put the post in a vice and twisted the bike worked a treat and may I say what talented musicians you have in the background is that the track nails down a blackboard ?
can you talk about how youclamped it in the vice so as not to bend the frame?
if you heat both the seat post and the frame and then quickly cool tim down you might get the seat post out, but the frame will become more brittle and thus weaker.You could instead use lye to get rid of the aluminum seat post and leave the frame intact, but maybe scarifying part of the paintwork.
Feb 27 every year is ”lube your seatpost” day, worldwide.
@Ernotolis No, it's a friend of mine's music. It's funny that you ask that because one of his favorite bands is godspeed you black emperor
@ThisIsCriminallyBad naw, it was just my buddy's project, figured I'd throw it up there so someone would here it outside of other electronic DJs :)
Backing track brought to you by the hypnotoad
Thanks to you and your wife great team.. great minds as they say....that’s just helped me with my stem. After all those other videos 😂
Check out west town bikes
Is that a jet engine revving up?
How to remove a seatpost that has no flange and has fallen inside the seattube?
Thanks man, glad you liked it
Thanks for the video, I need to do this on my mtb, it has been stuck since 2004, but I never cared to take it out. Now I need to replace the post. How long did it take you from start to finish? Heat it up for 10 min, cool, heat it up for another 10 min, cool?
If the seatpost fell completely into the bikeframe's post and is lodged completely in there, seat not attached and it is not sticking out whatsoever. How would I go about getting it out?
I got mine unstuck by using a wrench to catch the now flattened head of the seat pin. and a hammer to hit the wrench, Took me about 60 to 100 blows. The seat pin got flattened by trying to hammer it into the frame.
You might also try drilling a hole through the pin, put a long steel rod thorugh and slowly turn. Begin the hole with an angle grinder. It might work.
Avocet post! My 1989 Austro Daimler has one.
nICE AND FREELY bRETT! JUST A 20INCH WRENCH AND CLAMPED UP FRAME FREELY bRETT
Does the heat damage the seat post
Was the seatpost aluminum or steel like the bikeframe? I have a steel seatpost that's stuck into a chromali frame. Please let me know. Thank you, John
My ears started to bleed by the end of this..🤕
very well
wow, you´re working with a blow-torch under a wooden ceiling?
Hats off, 2:05 and you were nearly burning doen the house above....
Next: You did it the wrong way round: Heaten the external Tube, cool the internal tube.
Couldn't heat/cool like that because then I would have set the paint on fire. Original paint, wanted to keep it
freeclimb64 You'r relying on the differential expansion of the two metals to break the corrosion joint. Heating the outside may not be as useful as it might appear as the aluminium seat post will expand more quickly than the (steel?) frame. And it will spoil the paint.
What's with "a blowtorch under a wooden ceiling"? How do plumbers plumb in a house, loft, airing cupboard or floor void?
freeclimb64 Hey-- Leave the man alone. No chance to ceiling could catch fire, and it worked. And the increased expansion of the aluminum is the whole point. Once expanded it will break the bind once the aluminum goes back to it's increased de-spansion once cooled to equal temperature. It's enough to unseize the coupling and he proved it. It's science..
I have the same problem , i will try
I think so, but I am not a bike mechanic, but usually bmx bikes have a sturdy enough frame. I would just be careful
By heating up the seat post you expand it further and making it get stuck even worse. What you should do is freeze the good damn tube
There is no method a normal person has to freeze the tube.
Worked a charm
@PLBIV you said humboldt.... meaning chicago.... meaning that's where i live. i have a seat post stuck in a bike that i'm restoring and ive been tryin to get it out for like a month... nevermind
MORE COWBELL !!!
im looking to do this to my bmx because i got a old 05 free agent and just recently i wanted new parts so i got a new frame and then i trying puting in my old free agent seat post and it was to big i told my friend he said hill put it in so i said ok then he put on lube and it whent all the way in and poped in place so now i wanna paint it now it doesn't get out and he did everything put on lube get a wrench put it on the post and hit it with a hammer so do you think this is safe for my frame
How can you tell that you've heated it up enough between each cooling? I've got an aluminum frame.
What d hell that background music, some sort of binaural audio?
@PLBIV OOOOOOHHHHHH.... It all clicks now. Unfortunately when I started grad school I left the city and moved out to the boonies. Plus, you can totally do this, I have faith in you :)
I have a specialized fuse 2 and I have tried everything to get my seat post out, its like it was glued in, sometimes I feel like it want meant to cone out but that's a dumb thought, I've watched endless videos Alpo t my bike and Ive never seem the stock seat post in any videos, are there any other methods I could try before doing this one?
Touch it with your finger. Medics at the emergy room will tell you if it was hot enough.
Yeah background noises....
I Have tried this and I used wd40 and it isn't working what do you think I should do?
is that Godspeed You Black Emperor? in the background?
Thanks man, glad I could help
Thanks going to try that!hope it s going to work!!!
oh wow that background noise is incredibly frustrating, I cant watch any more
was that music?
@thinkgoodtube about an hour, plus I got to play with a blowtorch!
Yes, yes I do.
Awesome! glad I could help!!!
nice one, is it the Velvet Underground in the background /
+gnileek01 thanks, no it was some experimental music from a buddy of mine in Grad school
Thats has to be the most god awful noise (music?) I’ve ever heard!!
Are you the late Ryan Dunn's long lost twin?
What is that aweful noise
what's that horrible buzzing noise?
Turn bike upside down. Smack seat tube on a 2 X 4 sharply 20 times.
To make it harder to make out his words when he mumbles?
Can I like and dislike a video at the same time?!
Horror show
some good ideas here.. background music a bit annoying though! hard to hear you sometimes.. top marks for drama though
thanks for the vid !
That's not a crappy blowtorch, you're lighting it wrong.
awesome!!
the drone in the background is annoying and competes w/one's attention span for noise.