Well I made it to the shop mentioned above, The Bicycle Kitchen, and it didn't break loose yet. The suggestion and I kinda like it and I think I'll pursue it, is to use dry ice on the outside of the stem. There's alot of the stem exposed and what I'm hoping will happen is the coldness will travel on into the part in the frame and shrink just a little. They had a pretty big vise there and I was able to put quite a bit of torque on it. To the point where I could see the top tube bending just a bit. What happened before my visit to the shop was that I had ammonia in the seat tube for about three days and then my Kroil oil came to me through ebay. I cleaned things up pretty well and made sure it was dry, then I dumped almost the whole bottle of oil into the seat tube via the inside of the bottom bracket. It was in there soaking for over 10 days. Twice a day I tilted and rotated the seat tube, just to be sure the oil was at the aluminum and steel face. It stopped me from worrying that all the oil might be just sitting inside the seatpost and doing nothing. The oil was dumped and saved and I'll probably put it back into the seatpost and give it a few days to soak again.

I have a few parts that I am looking for and I happened to lose one of these parts today. The parts are as follows with any notes are after the pic of the part.


This was one of the two pulleys. It's in really bad shape and I need to replace it with the proper pulley. The derailleur is a RD 7401.



This is the second pulley on the derailleur. It's in great shape and I'm pretty sure if I find another one like this, that would be acceptable and work fine?


Here are the "barrel adjusters"? I'm looking to replace one or both. Would like to keep with the same design. This is from a BR 7400.



Here are the "screw rear dropout". It's incomplete as shown. I'm looking for the wingnut screw.





This is the part that I ended up losing today. I didn't know how these stayed on and I thought they just pressed on. When I torqued on the frame today trying to get off my seatpost, these ended up "popping off". They flew and I was lucky to recover one of them at the Bicycle Kitchen. I don't have a clue what I should enter for the search parameters on ebay. They were part of the 7 speed Dura Ace downtube shifters. I don't even know if this is the left or right side, if that even matters.

Any help on putting in the correct search parameters on ebay would help tremendously on this item or any of the items mentioned. A little on the bike I'm working on. It was a racing bike from the late 80s, a Lux Fuso. I pretty much got the bike complete with just about all original parts. The seatpost and handlebar stem isn't a Dura Ace 7400 era and I'm replacing those parts. I still have the original wheels with 36h Mavic and DA hubs that are still rideable. I've "updated them to 28/32h DA hubs that are used more nowadays and look sexier too. Eventually I want to have all the parts correct period parts (DA 740X) except maybe the seat and pedals.

Thanks for reading this long post and feel free to comment with any opinion you may like. It will be most welcomed.