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<blockquote data-quote="Critter1" data-source="post: 533895" data-attributes="member: 7065">&gt;&gt;&gt;LACKLUSTER&lt;&lt;&lt;So the first thing I did was check to see if the seat post that came out of this frame would fit the guts of my Brooks 72.. I had my fingers crossed that it would! Well it was loose, but not by much so I decided to make a shim and weld it to the post so it wouldn&#039;t slide out. Here it&#039;s hard to see, but it&#039;s a loose fit... even with the guts smashed together, it was still loose.&nbsp; :| <img src="http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/1d373668.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The rest is basically self explanatory. It worked out really well and now fits the Brooks seat guts nice &amp; snug. issue #1 resolved!<img src="http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/6d4c56f3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/6f3cb42f.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/b169ff86.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/a7fb56a7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/e64f38b2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Critter1, post: 533895, member: 7065"] [b]>>>LACKLUSTER<<<[/b] So the first thing I did was check to see if the seat post that came out of this frame would fit the guts of my Brooks 72.. I had my fingers crossed that it would! Well it was loose, but not by much so I decided to make a shim and weld it to the post so it wouldn't slide out. Here it's hard to see, but it's a loose fit... even with the guts smashed together, it was still loose. :| [img]http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/1d373668.jpg[/img] The rest is basically self explanatory. It worked out really well and now fits the Brooks seat guts nice & snug. issue #1 resolved! [img]http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/6d4c56f3.jpg[/img] [img]http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/6f3cb42f.jpg[/img] [img]http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/b169ff86.jpg[/img] [img]http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/a7fb56a7.jpg[/img] [img]http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu14/jheath16407/e64f38b2.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]

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