Halloween Trash Can Pop Up Prop - Pneumatic

Short clip of our pneumatic Halloween trash can pop up prop during testing.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Halloween
• Animatronic
• Props
• Pneumatic
• Trash
• Can
• Pop
• Up
• yardhaunters

[stfron]

I'm assuming this is the bicycle pump setup, how did you get the lid to not 'spin' around?

[yardhaunters]

We never use bike pumps or screen door closers. This was built using a single action spring return Bimba cylinder with a Red Hat Asco solenoid. The lid is attached to a piece of 1" x 1/8" flat aluminum bar bent to fit under the lid. This is attached to a 4 bar linkage that turns the 6" cylinder travel into approx 19" travel for the trash can lid.

[jaden1592]

@bRadicalmagic1 yea it would work too bad they dont make pvc fit inside one another perfectly

[bRadicalmagic1]

Seems like a guy could make one a lot simpler and even cheaper if he just put a PVC pipe INTO a PVC pipe, hook up air compressor and welah. Yes, no, maybe?

[oddsource]

nice homemade prop... scare factor ftw :)

[cimlee]

Do have pictures of the linkage or a 'how to' posted anywhere? I would love to build this for this years Halloween.

[277kevy]

i looked at all your animatronic stuff. i love it. how do you learn how to do that. i want to try and start doing that for next year. search for "avkevy" and check out my vids of my halloween. 2007 will be up by december

[Likethelegos]

thats ok....