I remembered today that I had an 1980's Campagnolo Record Seat Pin that looked much nicer, and was a whole lot lighter than the SR Seat Pin that I salvaged off the Benotto. There was one tiny problem though. The SR was 27.0 mm and the Campagnolo was 27.2 mm. 2/10ths of a milimeter may not seem like a whole lot, but it makes it very tight to insert the seat pin.
I took a drive to visit my mates at Cyclepath to pick their brains. Jeff said he had a tool that may work. It wasn't a proper seat tube reamer, but he said that when you spin it in the tube with a drill, it may polish that minute amount of paint/crud build up and metal away. It took about an hour but it actually worked well.
I soaked the shift levers in a water/degreaser mix to loosen up the built up grime and grease.
I have also begun my search for a Campagnolo 1” threaded headset of the same vintage because the Benotto one I salvaged isn’t that great. These seem to be as rare as hens teeth.
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