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10-17-13 | 11:42 AM

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FBinNY

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Originally Posted by Clawed

Why does that sound familiar?

Sorry, I've been doing it this way for almost half a century. I started back when we routinely had to rescue steel pin type posts from the bottoms of seat tubes on Raleighs.

If I had seen your post I would have simply done a +1.

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