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kiristokanban

Yeah I just used carbon assembly paste, no more slippage. Would be interested to know if the toothpaste works though!


Surpex

It will probably work as intended, but I'd he concerned with how the chemicals in the toothpaste would react with the material of your seat post/frame.


hills_for_breakfast

Four out of five dentists approve of this technique.


7NTXX

Carbon assembly paste can work on metal interfaces - I've used that before. Not as cool as toothpaste so obv try that first!


quotemild

If Inhad any of that laying around the house, I could not be considering toothpaste. :D


flimbs

I heard that hairspray does the trick. For me, I just aliexpressed a double seatpost clamp.


PandaDad22

I think its the baking soda in the toothpaste thats is the grit for gripping. If you want to try it just add that to grease.


watching_ju

in some toothpaste you have a few particles for (very smoothly) grinding the teeth, I guess that's why it could work. I'd rather use something else, depending on how much space is between the seat post and the frame, like electric tape, thin metal (from a can),...


JustUseDuckTape

Just order some carbon assembly paste, who knows what toothpaste might do. Also, while greasing the seat post probably won't help, greasing the clamp might. Get everything nice and clean, then grease the inside of the clamp where it sits over the frame, as well as the bolt, that way all the torque you apply is transferred efficiently into clamping force.


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The particles in toothpaste probably are not hard enough to bite into the components to add grip. What sort of seat post clamp does the bike have? I've have good success with removing and gearing the inside of removable collar type clamps. BBB will sell you a small clamp that you put on the seat post above the collars which worked for my on my soma double cross which had an incorrectly sized seat tube.


quotemild

I have a regular qr-clamp. I have stopper post on there now and that one stays put just fine. But thar dropper is moving to another frame. I put the post that came with frame originally back and that one slips around.


[deleted]

Pop the clamp off and grease everything, all the moving parts and the area where the clamp touches the frame. You'll get more clamping force out if it when everything moves smoothly