• I tried;

    Drilling, to put a bar through the post (the bar just bent)
    Cutting the length of the seatpost (with a hacksaw blade in a jab saw holder-thing)
    More wrestling, this time with a blow-torch heating the seat tube

    I wonder if I had a workshop bench (and vice or two) I could probably have got a result with the same techniques.

  • Shed has a big old Record vice. That’ll be the first stop, after a good soak in plusgas.
    Going down the caustic soda route will leave as a last resort ha ha

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