Re: [CR] Stronglight bottom bracket fixed cup tool

(Example: Production Builders:Teledyne)

Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:34:25 -0800
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
To: <earle.young@tds.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <dtshifter@aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <8CC43223F30B060-4A0C-86F2@webmail-d041.sysops.aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Stronglight bottom bracket fixed cup tool


I beg to differ. I hold in my hand a Stronglight 8 sided fixed cup and a 30/2 jaw for a VAR #30 BB tool. The 30/2 is 38.1 and 37.8 mm. The 38.1 side fits the Stronglight 8 sided cup perfectly. It should. It was made specifically for that purpose. Considering that VAR is French and that the Stronglight 8 sided fixed cup was part of one of the two most prominant French BB's for several decades, it would be bizarre if VAR did not make a jaw to fit the Stronglight cup. They most assuredly did. I've removed many 8 sided Stronglight cups with this tool.

BTW Bike Tools Etc. still sells the 30/2 jaw to fit the 8 sided Stronglight fixed cup.

Regards,

Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA


--- On Fri, 12/4/09, dtshifter@aol.com wrote:


> From: dtshifter@aol.com <dtshifter@aol.com>

\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] Stronglight bottom bracket fixed cup tool

\r?\n> To: earle.young@tds.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 11:56 AM

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Those sealed SL bottom brackets had two flats on the drive

\r?\n> side as do most bottom bracket assemblies.  Most of the

\r?\n> questions (and difficulties)  about removing SL BB

\r?\n> fixed cups usually were about the 8 sided cups!!  The

\r?\n> VAR #30 tool won't help with those!

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Chuck Brooks

\r?\n> Malta, NY

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> -----Original Message-----

\r?\n> From: earle.young tds.net <earle.young@tds.net>

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Sent: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 12:27 pm

\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] Stronglight bottom bracket fixed cup

\r?\n> tool

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Bob Hanson questioned whether the VAR #30 is worth the

\r?\n> cost. I have to weigh

\r?\n> in with an enthusiastic YES.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Mine was stolen along with a box of cool but little used

\r?\n> tools about a

\r?\n> decade ago.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I did not use the VAR tool that often, but each and every

\r?\n> time I did I told

\r?\n> myself that it was worth the expense. I would rather leave

\r?\n> a fixed cup in

\r?\n> place than pull it with some other tool. Clean it through

\r?\n> the shell and the

\r?\n> spindle hole and use parts that fit it. If it isn't worth

\r?\n> keeping in place,

\r?\n> then I don't have a problem with pulling it with whatever

\r?\n> can get it out of

\r?\n> the frame. OTOH, if it is a fixed cup worth keeping, then

\r?\n> do whatever it

\r?\n> takes to find somebody with the VAR tool or the Hozan copy

\r?\n> and use that.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Earle Young

\r?\n> Madison, Wisconsin, where new snow and old Mercedes decided

\r?\n> they do not play

\r?\n> well together.