removal tool are envisioned as having utility as shown in fig3 a screw like tip 13 may be provided which will assist the user in the insertion of the tool into the packing material additionally although the tool has been described as having a rigid hollow shaft a flexible shaft 2 may be advantageously employed as those skilled in the art recognize an arrangement much like a bicycle brake cable could be utilized to activate the barbed levers which would be installed in a rigid substantially pointed tip connected to one end of the cable although a spring loaded mechanism for retraction of the barbed levers has been described it is within the scope of the present invention to utilize other mechanisms as may be envisioned a normally open spring loaded barbed lever arrangement not shown could be employed in such an arrangement the barbed levers would retract due to the force of insertion of the tool into the packing material and spring open during the extraction of the tool from the packing box as can be seen such a tool would not require the spring loaded rod arrangement shown in fig1 thus simplifiying the tool considerably the following prophetic example is illustrative of the benefits which would accrue from the use of the present invention to remove soft packing from a fluidic device a tool of the present invention is inserted into the packing the plunger is depressed which expands the barbed levers into the packing anchoring the tool in the packing with the plunger depressed the tool is withdrawn from the packing box along with the packing this procedure is continued until all the packing is removed new packing can then be installed in the usual manner the invention and.