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Exactly, nail on the head. The frame was free because the seatpost slipped and was so over tightened to get it to stay still that it had cracked so I got it for the price of the parts and "repaired" the carbon at home but still couldn't get the seatpost to stay still. I thought about gluing it in place or wrapping it in carbon but I will change parts in the future and may need to adjust the height a fraction so I just wrapped tape around the stretched inner tube, as you say
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Was that frameset a freebie, or did you bust it?
And how the hell is that tube/tape confection holding up your post?
...Ohh, wait, I get it now - the stretched tube is doing the same thing as a clamp, and the tape is there to hold it in place for some unspecified amount of time. Nice bodge.