Don't know if it varied by location, but in the early 70's in the Cleveland, OH area, the shop where I bought my first good bikes had a whole box full of the Stronglight tools with extractor, socket, and handle. IIRC they were really cheap, like $5 or $10 tops.
As someone was saying, you can sometimes remove a Stronglight crank with a TA puller, but you can also sometimes ruin the crank that way. In The Day the Park crank extractors were double ended, with one end for Campy and the other end for TA. Hundreds of Stronglight cranks were probably ruined by guys using the TA end of a Park extractor on them, maybe thousands.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: Barb and Dan Artley <hydelake@verizon.net>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] Stronglight Crank Extractor
\r?\n> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
\r?\n> Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 8:57 AM
\r?\n> As a bit of history, back in the day, around the late
\r?\n> sixties and then
\r?\n> some, those crank extractors were really tough to find.
\r?\n> And in the
\r?\n> newly organized Baltimore Bicycling Club, the Peugeot PX-10
\r?\n> was the cool
\r?\n> bike to own with the racing club folks I knew into
\r?\n> Paramounts, as the
\r?\n> local Schwinn dealer was their sponsor. The Stronglight 93
\r?\n> had a
\r?\n> reputation for coming loose at the BB, and almost no one
\r?\n> had the
\r?\n> pullers/tighteners. It was generally known a thin wall 16
\r?\n> mm socket
\r?\n> would work to tighten them and a Snap-On was one of the few
\r?\n> that would
\r?\n> fit, but I ended up getting the real puller from Stuyverson
\r?\n> in New York
\r?\n> City, the only place I could get one to turn up.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Happy trails,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Dan Artley in Parkton, Maryland USA
\r?\n>
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\r?\n> From: Peter & Monique <pjrogers(AT)rogers.com>
\r?\n> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:00:53 -0400
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Stronglight Crank Extractor
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Dear All,
\r?\n> Does anyone have a 49D and 93 Stronglight crank extractor
\r?\n> that they
\r?\n> would be willing to sell? Or, if anyone knows of another
\r?\n> (more readily
\r?\n> available) generic extractor that might work, I would
\r?\n> greatly appreciate
\r?\n>
\r?\n> your advice.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Many thanks,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Peter Rogers
\r?\n> Barrie, Ontario, Canada