well if you got the bolt out take a pipe wrench to it and twist it out. then go and buy a new seat post there not that much jim At 08:14 PM 7/3/2008, you wrote:
>Hi Folks, > >We just got a hand me down mountain bike from one of my wife's patients. > >It's a mini mountain bike. > >The size is perfect for her, except that the seat needs to be >lowered as low as it will go. > >Right now it's about six inches up from the frame, and it has to >come down all the way. > >Now, before everyone floods my inbox with answers on how to do this, >I just need to say that I know how to lower the seat, the problem is >that it's rusted so much that it won't budge. > >I've tried pounding the seat down with my fist, tried a board with a >hammer, and yet nothing. > >I've tried to widen the piece of metal clamping onto the seat bar, >and it won't budge, but then again, that may be because I'm not >using the proper set of tools. > >I remember my father having a pair of, well, anti-pliers, for lack >of a better term, that would open out instead of in. > >In other words, instead of tightening around an object, it would let >it go when you squeezed it. > >I've tried high and low to find a set like that, but to no avail, so >I'm left to work with what I have. > >Can anyone suggest a way of loosening this seat so I can clean the >rust off, do something to it so it won't rust anymore, and replace >it back on the bike so it looks relatively new? > >Any ideas would be very much appreciated, by both me and my >daughter, and remember, if this list fails to answer this question, >you'll be disappointing a 6 year-old little girl. Smile. > >Naw folks, I'm just kidding, she doesn't even know I'm writing this >letter. LOL. > >In any case, any suggestions are better than none. > >Victor >Co-moderator >Blind Movie Buffs List >Guidedogs List > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG. >Version: 8.0.134 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1532 - Release Date: >7/3/2008 8:32 AM
