Squeezing blood from a stone: cheapskate tips

You know when you come to the end of a tube of grease, and you roll it up and keep trying to squeeze the last dregs of it out. Usually you end up squeezing more than you want in your zeal to roll the tube to its maximum. But you eventually reach a point where no amount of rolling/squeezing is going to release any more grease.

Of course it is Fri or Sat night, and you've got a big ride the next day or god forbid a race (What in the world are you doing repacking grease in anything the day before a race!!!) The bike shop is closed, and the auto parts store is closed and even if it was open you probably want to use some bike specific grease (meaning the grease is inside packaging that says it is meant for bicycles) rather than the marine grease at the auto parts store even though they might be exactly the same thing.

Here is a trick to eeek out all that a tube of grease is willing to give up and then some: Take some scissors and cut it open. I am always surprised at how much grease is still left inside those tubes, even though I've rolled and squeezed this thing to 10tons of pressure on an arbor press.