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I’ve experienced this a few times with my steel frame. I’ve tried many different preventative measures (normal grease, copper slip, anti-seize grease and carbon assembly stuff) and they’ve all failed (although it’s more me that’s failed in that I don’t move it enough). That said I usually clean the bike every month so it’s managing to seized up quickly.
I’ve looked at these two threads about using a carbon seatpost in a steel frame:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread53913.html
http://www.lfgss.com/thread35410.html
and I was surprised to see seizing was still an option. Question is will a carbon seatpost seize as often as an alu one? And if it does would a steel on steel seatpost mean there was little/no galvanic potential and would not seize. Do steel seatposts exist? A quick Google search suggests not but I may be searching for the wrong thing.
Basically short of just using my alu frame or paying more attention is there anything I can do to stop this happening again?