Seatpost woes...

guinea
guinea Posts: 1,177
edited April 2011 in Workshop
I've just moved house and had to pack my bike.

To get it in to the new car I had to remove the seat post. My god, what a job that was. It took two of us 10-15 minutes os twisting and pulling to release it.

When I got to the new place I cleaned off the carbon wrapped alu post, greased it up and tried to put it back in the carbon bike. Oh oh. Very very tight.

I've tried cleaning the inside of the tube and using more grease, but the bugger will not go in easily. Sure I could hammer it in, but it's never coming out if I do that.

Tips?

Comments

  • richtw
    richtw Posts: 118
    clean the inside of the seat tube with a very fine wet & dry to get rid of any residual rubbish down there. Wrap a cloth round a broom handle then wrap the wet & dry round this to make it a reasonably tight fit, make sure you evenly rub it. Do not be tempted to use a coarse paper.

    Then check the post and make sure it is clean, again you can use very fine wet & dry to clean the surface up if needed. It it is polished you can bring it back up with fine cutting paste.

    It should be fine!
  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    is it the correct diameter?
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  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    maddog 2 wrote:
    is it the correct diameter?

    Yeah. It used to be a piece of cake to adjust when I first got it.

    I'm going to try a little light sanding of the inside of the frame when I get some materials.
  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    Richtw wrote:
    clean the inside of the seat tube with a very fine wet & dry to get rid of any residual rubbish down there. Wrap a cloth round a broom handle then wrap the wet & dry round this to make it a reasonably tight fit, make sure you evenly rub it. Do not be tempted to use a coarse paper.

    Then check the post and make sure it is clean, again you can use very fine wet & dry to clean the surface up if needed. It it is polished you can bring it back up with fine cutting paste.

    It should be fine!

    I used super fine sand paper wrapped around a toilet plunger.
    Just gave it a good clean and rub. I took a little gloss off the post too.

    I added a little grease and it slips in without a problem now.

    Thanks!