Amazingly simple, fast can crusher

This crusher was built for less than $150 and crushes cans as fast as you can feed them. The last step will be to add a hopper for dumping cans in. The mechanism senses a can falling into place and activates the crusher. When the last can falls out, the crusher stops. The sensor inside only detects metalic objects and will not activate on fingers.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• automatic
• can
• crusher

[larsw69]

10p6, $100 and 300 cans and I bet you can't

[larsw69]

No hopper yet. Tried a few simple ideas that didn't work, then got tied up with other projects. As of now, I just load them by hand. Can still crush a garbage bag of cans in about 1 minute.

[nortim88]

америкосы, вы зажрались! вот наши бомжи каждую баночку в ручную прессуют, в мешочки складывают, и несут на себе за несколько километров в пункт приема цвет мета!... блеять...!

[tkcypruss07]

drops can standing up.. reaches back in for it to fix it... ouch..

[vbrigham]

Auto feed that thing!

[evilclown99]

Nice but dangerous. Needs a hopper.

[almarquardt]

Do you have plans for this can crusher

[MrKevin010]

Very Nice cont.

A family, a beer drinker OR a family With a beer drinker can go through many cans in a week --- anyone that says their foot works as good/better smashing cans with your foot doesn't use many cans, gets old fast, not to mention it's not real good on most houses floors.... And don't tall me you take each one outside each time you need to smash them!

So Right on NICE, Prox swx that works on Aluminum cans?

Would love a parts list. Plans?

[MrKevin010]

Very nice. Don't worry about the haters out there --- In America we can throw cans out, pays a company to collect them or recycle them ourselves and get a couple bucks while "saving the earth."

[grkgangsta89]

Hey i am making a can crusher for my senior design project, im assuming you used a pneumatic piston here, what kind of sensor did you use? anyway you can send me a message with where you got your supplies?

[frisc45]

how much psi is the cylinder?

[amck63]

pure genius