Disassembled a diminutive 1976 Azuki Imperial gifted to me a while back by a fellow forumite. Trashed, bent, rusty wheels on that thing, but lots of good mid-70s SunTour swag on the bike to recycle, which is always nice
The stem - frozen in place but looking fairly pristine otherwise - I soaked with a a couple shots of PB Blaster from both ends and let it sit and contemplate its fate for a couple days. (You know what you've done, stem.)
Tapping and twisting got me no movement, so I got out the old heat gun and roasted the sucker from beneath the fork crown for about 10 minutes. Long story short, it broke free without too much drama, and gave me a neat photo op along the way; PB solvents and moisture blasting out the little vent/weep hole on the end of one fork leg the whole time. Never saw that kind of thing before.
