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
> 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.