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@Seeds
fucking YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!
300ml butane lighter refill sprayed down the inside of the stem until everything was really cold (frost forming all over the stem and forks) followed by sustained and furious beating with a rubber hammer finally, fucking finally, moved the stem down by a half mm or so.
I think that we both accepted that it was all over at that point. I just had to hit it as hard as I could for another couple of minutes, until it had moved all the way into the steerer. I mean, it gave a half-hearted show of resistance while I tried to twist it out, which is why I now have frostbitten fingers, but now it's in rusty, separate, unharmed pieces on the floor of my room. Ha!!
Now all I have to do is get the bottom cup out of the headtube.