It's so funny that Sean should mention old campy grease. Just a day or two ago, I was dissassembling my Dad's 40 year old Peugeot PX-10 and found Campagnolo grease in the bottom bracket....I could smell it the very moment I cracked open the bottom bracket. And..it was still in pretty good condition and I had exactly the same thought as Sean...."how can I save this stuff?". Sean, we're both sickos!
After quite a bit of hand-wringing and dithering, I grabbed a rag and wiped the parts clean. But, I kept the rag. It's hanging from a clothes line in the garage. Twice today I have come into the garage and been greeted by the perfume of that grease and the accompaying wave of nostalgia brought on by that scent. I have been transported back in time, and I am sitting in my Dad's garage surrounded by bicycle parts, rebuilding a hub for the very first time.
I guess in a way I have found further use of that old grease.
Chris Wiscavage
Where it is still 1972 in Mountain View CA