I have a VAR 398 tool. It is is crank puller, but it must be a crank puller of a special sort. When inserting it into a "standard" crank threading, it goes two turns and then locks up, and could be turned farther with the use of a wrench, but that also leaves slight metal shavings. On Stronglight 49 crank threading, it slips through the hole and cannot pick up any threading. On a TA crankarm, similar to the Stronglight 49, it goes in loosely for three turns and then it can be secured as it goes farther in. Is this tool not a bicycle specific tool or might there be other threading for cranks that it would fit? I checked the Sheldon Brown catalogue posting of VAR tools, and I could not find it in his listing of VAR tools.
The tool can be seen at the following:
http://www.wooljersey.com/
Thank you.
Tom Hayes
Chagrin Falls, Ohio USA