Does Pepsi work, too?
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA
> Neill,
>
> You are absolutely correct with respect to Coke being an excellent
> solution (...no pun intended) to the problem. In fact, this is a
> venerable old Hot Rodder's trick for freeing up that stuck piston in the
> Ford flathead engine block you found rusting away in some farmer's
> back-forty (...I learned it from my father who said he first employed this
> tactic back in the 1930's). Over the years, I have used this unusual fix
> with success on several occasions (...pistons, seat posts, as well as a
> host of other stubborn objects - although I have found it to be entirely
> ineffectual with respect to stubborn individuals, unless perhaps you add
> some rum to the mix).
>
> Robert "things go better with Coca-Cola" Broderick
> ...the "Frozen Flatlands" of South Dakota
>
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>>From: "Neill Currie" <neill_currie@comcast.net>
>>To: <otis@otisrecords.com>, <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>>Subject: Re: [CR]I.D. old trackie
>>Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:52:39 -0400
>>
>>Otis wrote:
>>""Not even sure if that's possible, would
>>probably take months of soaking to just break the post loose,""
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>>Only help I can be is this story.
>>Found an OT bike in the trash with a stuck post. Tried ALL the usual
>>methods, including extra friends and a large bench-mounted vice.
>>Couldn't budge it. The bench did separate itself from the wall though
>>under maximal grunting. Didn't want to saw it out.
>>Anyway, did a little googling, found someone who'd freed a post finally
>>with Coke, yes, Coke.
>>So...I removed the BB, inverted bike, emptied a can of regular Coke
>>up/down the seat-tube, let it marinate overnight. Pulled it right out
>>the next day, by myself, with just my right hand. The post was all eaten
>>away on the frame/post interface(presumably from the "secret"
>>ingredients/acid in the Coke, but the seattube was untouched!!
>>So, if that post of yours is Aluminium, it MAY be far less work than you
>>think. This trick doesn't work on a steel post however, which that might
>>be.
>>Neill
>>
>>
>>Neill Currie
>>Hillsborough
>>Nh 03244
>>USA
>>...............
>>
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