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“dest post?” Sure. Oh well for typos. Here’s what we have...

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

One homely looking 27mm Campagnolo Super Record seat post for sale.

Appears chopped, but still has plenty of length with 200mm from cradle to end.

Oxidized, grease stained, scuffed, and beat to high heaven.

Cradle and hardware still function as designed.

Still cool as ever!

$27 shipped SOLD

Paypal F&F or add 3% for G&S

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scarlson 

I will take it. Plans to take it on a date with the lathe until it shines, and fits right into my specialized expedition at 26.8.

Cheers

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Now we're talkin'

I want to see it in all of its new glory if you don't mind posting pics when its done.

79pmooney

I see I'm too late. That post would be good exercise for my Campy "Z" wrench that hasn't had a decent workout in 40 years! (Since I sold my Fuji Pro with its original Hupel Rider post that got replaced with a Zeus that I won at Stowe. Both posts required the Z or the slicker tools still in the future.)

I don't think I currently have a 27.0 bike and the one the might be has a nicer (but with identical deep scratches) Campy Chorus post. So my poor Z's muscles will deteriorate a little more. Oh well ...

merziac

Oh crap! I have 2 27mm bikes and could really use this. 2nd dibs please if 1st doesn't pan out which I can't imagine.

scarlson 

Sorry, friends. The post is, indeed, taken.

For sure! Ping me if I forget

mech986 

Same here, would have worked well on multiple Italvega bikes which take 27.0 mm seat posts. Gotta remember to check posts more often here! Happy transaction for seller and buyer.

scarlson 

I spent about 2 and a half hours in the machine shop, but I think I did a good thing.

In addition to being pretty crusty, the post was bent backward, 0.15" (about 4mm) from straight. Luckily another vintage cyclist/engineer happened to be in the machine shop at the same time, and we had a little brainstorm about what to do. We settled on some collet blocks and vee blocks for fixturing, and the hydraulic press to get it back straight. The press registered 7 tons at the maximum force I used on it, which is not a lot for a hydraulic press, but is a lot for a Super Record seatpost! I put another little dent in it in the process, but I think I made it more usable.

Then I did a little polish work to get it down to 26.8 and take out the dings.

Here is the result.



@mech986 @merziac
You may have dodged a bullet! No offense to the seller, I am very happy with my purchase and was pretty sure of what I was getting into! I had hours of fun in the shop with a friend.

Final suggestion my engineer friend had was to paint the flutes the color of whatever bike I put it in. I've always had some Campy odds and ends on every bike, but truth be told, I've never really been passionate about Italianate bling. However, this post is making me want to do a "Mexico" treatment to some cranks here. Is this how it begins?

merziac

@scarlson

Yep there's something about this "crap" and I get your trepidation. I bought my first Campy part, a seatpost in high school at a Schwinn shop. It was on sale for $37 which was quite a lot, unbeknownst to me that it was a skinny version and took an act of congress to get the seat mounted that was an a**hachet for that. After that and for not realizing what was going on, I mostly veered away from Campy after that and bought Mafac 2000 brakes and a 3T stem. I still understood the Campy draw but by then couldn't afford any of it.

Glad you got this sorted, its always good to have extreme capabilities at your disposable as long as you're prepared to have some catastrophic failures which is always fun to realize the limits of tooling, components and your own skill/process.

mech986 

Nice work! Seems intuitive now that a seat post only put in halfway or less would likely have a potential bend in it if ridden hard by a strong rider who could leverage forces onto it, guess I should be checking all my long seat posts. Imagine what today's really long posts might have on them, carbon or not. Nice job with the polishing, I would have thought the bottom would clean up better but its not going to be visible anyway. I do agree with the painted flutes, Italian or other flag colors is popular, as is frame color or contrasts. Remember that flutes do allow potential water ingress if near the lugs, so for us shorter guys with lower seat posts, its a concern. Good luck and post a pic of when its finished and mounted.

scarlson 

Right you are. I've seen the dreaded bend more on American Classic and other such "stupid-light" posts, as well as older softer alloy ones like Hiduminium. And I just had to deal with a stuck SR Laprade seatpost from water ingress via the flutes, on a Univega. Made $40 and a case of beer, so it was worth my work! No worries - I did a sort of rough measurement to make sure the flutes would stick out enough on the Specialized Expedition.

The bottom of the post already measured around 26.8 when I started, mainly because of corrosion I think. There was a layer of scale that scraped off when I fitted it into a collet. So I couldn't really take off more material to get the deepest of those scratches out. And as you say, it's inside the frame so who cares.

Right, I am happy with it! And I learned a thing or two about straightening stuff.
I did go down a bit of an internet rabbit hole, thinking about a 1x8 using a Mexico'd Campy crank and Super Record rear mech with a Suntour LePree 3-pulley cage bolted on, or some other such blasphemy. In the end, this bike will probably get my usual XTR M952, a nice TA crank, and a Simplex bar end. Simplextr. It's like Shimergo.