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A Dental Industry Tool for Getting the Last Drop of Product Out of a Squeeze Tube
The Big Squeeze is now commercially available
Nothing drives me nuts like wasted product. When I finish a bag of potato chips, I up-end the bag and pour the powder at the bottom into my mouth. I "marry" my shampoo bottles. Back when I was cooking for myself, if I fried up a steak, the pan and the leftover juices were set aside to fry up the next morning's eggs.
But I can't get the last drop of toothpaste out of a tube.
Mechanical engineer Stephen Galante invented the following tool, which you've undoubtedly seen some earlier variant of, for the dental industry. Not for toothpaste, but for the tubes that tooth-bonding composites come in. It's as precious to the dentists as expensive paint is to poor artists. And what makes Galante's invention different from others is the gear-like wringers:
The Big Squeeze, as it's called, is now available to consumers and runs $40 a pop. If that sounds like a lot, I can almost guarantee I've thrown away at least that much toothpaste by not being able to extract it. For artists, chefs and mechanics working with more expensive tube-dispensed products, this thing is a no-brainer.
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Overkill. Just put the tube on a flat surface, Grab a dowel, or a pencil, or a ruler, or your toothbrush, and push the remaining toothpaste up from the bottom of the tube to the top.
Interesting, Loctite has a more expensive tool that does about the same thing, all bit it in a different way.
The surfacing on that orange handle is gorgeous.
I think the Spanish Inquisition invented these.
I would totally buy it. I love it. I too hate it when there are left overs that I can't access. Like the popcorn in a bucket at the movie theater :).
I have a tool like this I got for $8 from Amazon (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B074C6NWYN/). Made in China, and the squeezing handles are nowhere near as comfortable as these, but the same toothed gears that leave a crinkled finish on the tube, and the same all-metal construction.
I agree the handles looks like they will make the difference.