Well, perhaps you don't need to pull it from the stone or have the lady of the lake present it to you, just buy one of those ubiquitous pry bar sets. They come with 3 or more pry bars, bent end, squarish tips. Take one and grind tip to a true square so that the sharp corners grab on to the tab on the cylinder.

Worked for me and I spent a fair bit of time hammering and prying with other tools.

Good luck and don't pull those cylinders up too much!

Alistair

> On Oct 6, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Tom Carchrae <tom@carchrae.net> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> I found one head a real bear to remove. I got it off with a pry bar ( you see the tabs on the cylinders where to can pry). But not just any pry bar works. I ground the tip of the pry bar to a sharp edged 90 degree end. Then the tip would hold on to cylinder tab.
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> Yeah, I've picked through all my tools so far and none fit well - tiny wrenches being the only fit, but they are strong enough.  Perhaps something like http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130504052308/shipoffools/images/5/59/Excalibur.jpeg
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