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I stumbled upon my neighbor who is a car mechanic. He suggested that we should try with a torx head, so I'll stop by his shop next week and give it a try.
One more thing, should I unscrew the bottom bolt completely before trying to undo the upper problematic one? I'm asking this because I've read many times that untightening one bolt actually increases the load on the other one.
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Appreciate everyone's advice... I'll see what tools I can get my hands on and try something.
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Added some decals
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Any ideas on removing this bastard? It's the upper one that's completely rounded. It's partly my fault for using a disputable quality key and not stopping when it first slipped, but the bolt heads are just soft beyond belief. It hasn't seized since it has been screwed in just moments before. It has been tightened to 5 nm but I couldn't untighten it when I wanted to tweak the position. I just knew this would happen one day with this lousy ass bolts.
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It has to be one of these:
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Soviet Laser
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Thanks everyone!
@mcJ78 Yes, I thought about silver Thomson, I bet it would look sweet, but I desperately wanted a black kit, since I already have one bike with all silver components. Maybe one day it will happen, though.
@rawmeat Those earlier decals are actually gold, although they appear silver on photos. They really looked kinda cheap and flimsy from up close, so I wouldn't have kept them anyway. I have many options in my head about decals, thought about yellow, kinda like mash work, with downtube decal in form of outlines of the logo. I also thought about bright pink or mint colored. Maybe those options would look too Hip Hop. Other options are maybe matte silver or gold, or some pastel tones. Still need to see what foils the printworks offer.
Anyway, I borrowed those wheels from my other bike, those are Dura-Ace 7710s laced to Open Pros. New ones are about to be built with large flange Dura-Aces and TB-14s. We shall see what would suit this bike better.
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Still work in progress...
Added Thomson finishing kit, I'm pretty happy with the result, will probably switch with Nitto from time to time.
Still need to print some decals, not sure what color to chose though.
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I've built it up temporarily with some components from my other bike.
New wheels will be built with Dura Ace 7600 hubs and H+Son TB14 rims. Crankset will remain, but I'm not so sure about the cockpit.
Still need to change the seatpost with the one with little less setback, so I ordered a Deda Zero100 with 12mm setback. I'm thinking about a black cockpit too, but for now the silver Nitto combo will remain.
Hopefully the Deda seatpost will work fine, so I might consider a full Deda cockpit with drop bars in the future.
There's also a Cane Creek 110 Headset and a Thomson seat clamp.
I was also experimenting with different decals provided by the builder, but will either stick with black or try to print some in yellow or something that will give it a little contrast.
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Here's a project I'm currently working on.
I bought the frame from a Moscow based framebuilder who runs the Strela Bicycles workshop. The man was the founder and worked for another Moscow workshop, called Moskvich.
Among others, he builds this type of frames, inspired by Cinelli Laser.
This particular one is made of Columbus Cromor tubes and Campagnolo dropouts.
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Dibs "2) EAI Superstar cog Minimal wear, millions of miles left"
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Second dibs seatpost+stem.
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That exact same thing snapped a few days ago :
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DA 7710 Cranks and chainring arrived safely. Those cranks are probably the nicest piece of bike componentry I ever held in my hands. Thanks Ben!
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Dibs on the pedals, writing a PM
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Interested in DA cranks and chainring, sending a PM
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Someone above suggested the opposite - that the other bolt should be undone first, so I was confused.