Nice write up and pics! should be helpful to many here who want to dive into their FWs to service them. Gives me memoried of when I used to break open FWs too to service them. I used to use needle nose pliers clamped on to a wood framing clamp to remove the upper race of the Maillard freewheels I had in the 80's. Haven't opened one again in the last 20 years and have since just serviced my freewheels the lazy way by flushing it good with WD40 and then pushing in new grease through the small holes at the back of the FW. Just haven't had any bearing problems to justify doing so.
I recently tried to open up my FWs recently and for some reason I can't seem to break free the upper race ring on my Maillard 700 Compact Super 7 speed FWs using the needle nose plier approach. Looks like I will need to find the tool to do so. Anyone know where I can get it?? Does Park make/sell a tool for these 80's Maillard 700 FWs??

Chombi