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Old October 9th 17, 09:08 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
AMuzi
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Default Finally shifted the seized seat post.

On 10/9/2017 1:37 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
On Sunday, October 8, 2017 at 12:56:21 PM UTC-7, Ian Field wrote:
had to replace the saddle, so I put a few dabs of flour-emery powder on the
seat clamp. There was enough grip that I could get hold of the saddle and
twist the post out.

Now re assembled with copper slip anti seize compound.


Nice! But copper?


For a seat post, molybdenum base or copper base paste are fine.
The high temp aspect of copper is irrelevant but if that's
the can he has then that's the can he should use.

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