+1, Lionels tool strongly recommended. If one wants to avoid the socket and breaker bar, do as I did - got an ordinary 38 mm spanner. Using an angle grinder I cut off the open end and ground the shaft down to make it a little lighter and neater. Due to the angle between the closed end and shaft of the spanner there is no problem even with the deeply recessed spinners on a Roadster. The shaft is still long enough to tighten the spinners properly. The removal tool lives happily in a little cloth bag underneath the driver*s seat, the spanner between the seat and the propshaft tunnel. By the way, Lionel makes a version for three-eared spinners as well. The "Oldtimer" (common expression for a classic car in Germany, by the way) tool might be even more elegant, but the price is certainly not.
