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It’s not cheaper, but it is available and the first tool we reach for in the shop when it’s time to removal a fixed cup of unknown quantity

It’s basically Sheldon’s tool but made from a big ol hunka steel

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...e1366c764.jpeg

https://www.efficientvelo.com/tools/...bb-cup-remover

I got the Stein clamp tool as part of a bulk purchase. I had no idea what it was, so I just tossed it in my toolbox and forgot about it. Then one day I was trying to figure out how to hold my fixed cup wrench in place and it dawned on me that I had a tool for that. It works perfectly.

This post details how to make something like the Stein tool out of about 30¢ worth of parts. I take off the fixed cup first because I can use the spindle to stabilize the tool.

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Originally Posted by fliplap (Post 23064975)

Kingsbridge, Zeus, and probably others made similar tools.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...7feed2ab77.jpg
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...857fc3ee19.jpg
And Hozan makes a version of the VAR #30:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...AC_SL1000_.jpg
https://www.amazon.com/HOZAN-Bottom-.../dp/B000BSBSL6

I got one of the Sugino Bottom Bracket tools pictured above in a box of bicycle tools from a retired racer . I have had really good luck getting some pretty stubborn fixed cups loose . I have put the frame flat on the rug and held my left hand flat against the cup and hit the other end with a dead blow mallet . Most of the time I don't have to get that serious as the wrench has good leverage

Banging on my new BB tools with a hammer didn't seem to loosen either side at all, so I made a handle extension for more leverage. It worked much better than a hammer, for me:

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...l#post22847876

This one holds some promise, there are other listings but they're all in Poland. https://www.ebay.com/itm/203125359964

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Originally Posted by jzr756 (Post 23064851)

Awesome Merziac at least 50+ years wrenching I imagine!?pretty much been wrenching almost a life time? We could be around the same age give or take i'm 67. Think I may have been some where around 8 working on my first Schwinn Stingray. Retired HD eq mech here. I like your same idea securely fixing the wrench in position leaving both hands free for leverage. Same concept as randyjawa's

Tx, yep 65, been wrenching on my own since about 12, used to have a pic of me at 2 or 3 in the garage when my Dad was swapping in a SBC in a Willy's window panel.

His Dad built plywood mills when they first came online all over the PNW.

He was a pretty good wrench and lucky for me I got the DNA and watched a lot so been pretty good at it.

Randy is a guru at this and he makes it happen, my trapped method leaves nothing to chance and can be accomplished multiple ways.

I also have 4ft. cheater pipe that slips over the whole wrench and never fails or damages any tools, parts, frames, paint or flesh, period. ;)