Glad it all worked out neatly !
Interesting way to make your bicycle lighter !
Lucky it was a chunk of steel , and not a chunk of aluminum . The bi-metallic electrolytic / galvanic corrosion would probably have fused it all together . . . ( and I'd be happy to have a real expert in the chemistry of metals correct my terminology ! )
But , how did you insert a rod and PRESS it out ? Was it so short that it came out through the bottom bracket shell ?
I can picture sliding a short plug in through the bottom bracket shell , and PULLING it out through the top of the seat-tube . . .
Just curious about the strange pictures your narration has put into my imagination !
Raoul Delmare
Marysville Kansas U.S.A.
> Took Stella frame to local builder and he said its probably a seat post.
> After scrubbing out rust and dousing with penetrating oil followed by
90wt, I
> inserted a threaded rod and proceeded to press it out. After being in
there for
> over thirty years it took more pressure than I wanted to exert but it
finally
> gave. It was a steel seatpost.
>
> Jack Romans
> Sacramento, CA