If you still have not fixed your bike seat problem you might try clamping a pair of locking plyers, I E vice grips tward the top of the tube that you are trying to move and then work it back and forth like you are trying to tighten and loosen a bolt. Just be careful that you don't lock the plyers on so tight that you crush the pipe. But my experience has been that they are made pretty sturdy and should not crush too easily. OH and don't start out too agresivelly. You sure as heck don't want to twist the tube like a pretzel or snap it off. Good luck
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 4:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Bicycle Repair 101 Questions Hey for rust, PB Blaster, now that is the stuff and a good spray and a couple of days, you can use some of the other suggestions you received for removing the seat. On Jul 3, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Victor Gouveia 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] > > > Scott Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:s.howell%40verizon.net> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
