grinding special tools, bending punches, etc is a waste. the tool I described, is about as cheap as it can be, a chopped off tire iron. The instructions and sequence I showed above, allowed the person in the photos I shot, to effectivly remove the bearings.....
that person happened to be my wife, who i got to assist me when I shot the instructions for the Concourier artical "Shake, Rattle, and Roll"......
if she could accomplish the job with those tools, anyone can. forget about buying a $20 tapered punch, the taper is actually a deficit in this tool/procedure, and does not allow the punch to be shifted correctly to force the spacer sideways when struck to offset it.
as Tony noted, light wristed tappy-tapping will not suffice, you have to
smack the thing, both sideways to offset the spacer, and then downwards to dislodge the bearing..