Comments on: Tube-Wringer Gets You The Last Drop

By: Zathrus

Zathrus — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:27:01 +0000

I guess the real question is — how long will you have to use this thing to get $6 worth of epoxy/glue/whatever out of it? A year or two, if you’re going through a tube a week (since you’ll probably only recoup a few pennies at a time)?

For toothpaste the return is generally somewhere after you die.

Sometimes the frugal thing to do is not buy a silly gadget.

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:20:25 +0000

Build your own “epoxy squeezer”. Simply take a 4-ish inch piece of 1/4 id pipe, cut a 3″ slot (chop-saw kerf) for the tube crimps, cross-drill a small hole in the other end for a bolt “handle”

By: Aaron81

Aaron81 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:54:12 +0000

The concept is nothing new, although this looks much more effective than other designs, but in all honesty most things in tubes I use are adhesives that get used so infrequently they’ve solidified in the tube long before I’d need to get to the last drop.

It would be neat to have one that could hold both tubes of JB Weld at the same time so you always squeeze out a 1:1 ratio.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:48:20 +0000

Heck…. put me down for two! One for my toothpaste and one for the shop!

By: bowdesnki

bowdesnki — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:28:49 +0000

These work well for getting the last drop and are quite fun to use. For squishing a half used tube, there is no mechanism to keep the squished part down, unless you use a binder clip or such.

By: JIM

JIM — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:25:40 +0000

That looks all and well but the same company offers an aluminum heavy duty model that squeezes the heck out of things (toothpaste, caulk, etc.)

By: rbb

rbb — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:37:50 +0000

Now, if only it were wide enough to hold both the “a” and “b” tubes used to mix epoxy…