Custom can crusher IDEAS ..

[Big Dad]

I do not have any great spots to affix a crusher to the wall in the area the trash can / recyclable bin is ..

I think I'll have to build some kind of stand to put it on then set the bin under it unless someone already has created the answer

 

[Old Man Roger]

Line them up in the driveway and run them over.lol

 

[LX-Markham]

who needs a can crusher?

 

[Big Dad]

I do

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

Go on youtube and look at the pnuematic ones. You can get the cylinder and the actuator pretty cheap on amazon. The rest can be as simple or complex as you want. Im setting mine up to hang over the edge of my recycle bin so it dropps down into it once crushed. Plus its so cool to watch that thing get pancaked in less than a second.

 

[Big Dad]

I just want a nice stand that will not tip over instead of screwing into the wall basically

 

[Kevin54]

 

[kbs2244]

OH MAN
You can spend a week on you tube looking at "can crushers"

 

[wssix99]

who needs a can crusher?

This is really easy for one to do after watching their kicker double-doink a playoff game winner.

 

[HOTFR8]

Most places in Australia take them not crushed now. I have not crushed them for about 20 years. This I believe was due to people filling them with something before they crushed them like lead. So much easier not to crush them.

 

[pepi]

I've found an elephant does a good job and works for peanuts.

 

[BillK]

Just curious, do you have to crush them to put them in the recycling ?????? Ours do not have to be crushed. Or are you saving them to take them and get money for them ?

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Our recycle doesn’t want to see them crushed top down into a round disc. Ours have to be crushed on their side. I think that has to do with the fact only cans that have had a prepaid deposit returned that are recognizable. They also have no problem with a can being in its original form.

 

[DC73]

This is my can crusher.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ames-8-in-x-8-in-Steel-Tamper-2233400/204476033

DC

 

[fourjeepin]

I crush mine before taking to the scrap place so that more will fit in my 5-gallon buckets. I used to crush them with my foot, but I picked up a cheap plastic crusher for a coup,e of dollars at a Lowe’s clearance. I mounted it low enough for my son (5 years old) to crush them. He loves it! It makes us both happy.

 

[PhantomEB]

I crush mine with a Princess Auto can crusher. May fab up my next one in 1/8” plate just cause I can.

Or pneumatic so push a button and it’s fired off. My GF keeps vetoing this idea.....

Why I do this? One bag can hold 5 times when crushed than what a normal garbage can can hold. Then I use industrial bags from Home Depot which are 2 times the size of normal bags.

One bag when all crushed and it’s full.....60$ was the least I got out of the last few trips to the bottle Depot. Annoys my GF when I say I takin the bottles in, and come home with e flats of beer later.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

When I was a work my company through the Telephone Pioneers, I was in charge of the environmental portion. One project was the recycling of any paint products so not to simply thrown in the trash. We would crack the cans decide if it was useable or garbage. If it was good we would put it to the side and donate or give it away to whoever turned up could take it home. The contaminated, dried out or simply the dregs were scooped, poured into tin drums and sent off to be used as fuel to an outside party.
The old cans had to be dealt with originally we would haul them to a scrapper which in itself was a major job due to the volume. One guy built a crusher on wheels that could be used within the province for the same program. By the time the can went through the various rollers, the original can came out the other end about the thickness of a paint can lid. Wish I had a pic of it. After a couple of uses it had its own very special paint job!

 

[bullnerd]

Theres a vid of cool motorized one on here somewhere.

I think it used a windshield wiper motor or similar? Real simple with a magazine that fed cans into the crusher part then they dropped out the bottom.

EDIT: DOh! Someone just posted it in the GIF thread!lol!

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7660163&postcount=9146

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Theres a vid of cool motorized one on here somewhere.

I think it used a windshield wiper motor or similar? Real simple with a magazine that fed cans into the crusher part then they dropped out the bottom.

EDIT: DOh! Someone just posted it in the GIF thread!lol!

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7660163&postcount=9146

That ain't no wiper motor...

It's a right angle gear reduction motor drive. Based on the motor frame size,it's probably at least 3/4 hp.

Tommy

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

My brother in law has one that is also the lid of the trash can. I believe it was a wall mounted crusher and a custom made lid.
Crush the can and it falls in the trash barrel.

 

[bullnerd]

That ain't no wiper motor...

It's a right angle gear reduction motor drive. Based on the motor frame size,it's probably at least 3/4 hp.

Tommy

Yeah I noticed that. That's not the same vid I was talking about after looking at it again. Very similar, but the one I am talking about is smaller.

 

[kbs2244]

There is a difference between recycling and refunds on a can.

The recycle buyers only care about the weight.
So crushing is OK.

But if refunding is involved the UPC barcode has to be readable so they can route the money.

That is why some locations will not take crushed cans.

 

[Zick]

I use a kitchen trash compactor, works good.
Got a free one from a friend, the switch was bad and motor seized. Replaced switch and managed to free up the motor w/ some WD40.

 

[Perrorojo]

I built an attachment for a log splitter a long time ago. Who knows where it went. Basically a thick steel plate mounted to the blade and plate on the dead end. Two side plates that bolted to the I beam and held all the cans in line. It would crush about 40 cans at a time. It was more work to set up than it was to crush them with my foot.

 

[Bluedodge]

 

[NUTTSGT]

OH MAN
You can spend a week on you tube looking at "can crushers"

Yeah, that's why I'm dreading looking at them.

 

[Millwrong]

Here's mine, versions 1 & 2. The first one wouldn't do tall boys, so I came up with second one. I just put it on the bench with a recycling box underneath, hook up the air, and crush away!

 

[Ty.]

This forum is a bad influence... some parts came in from amazon and a used ram from eBay..

 

[Crazyjake8493]

What's the purpose of crushing them? I'm assuming you mean only the ones without a 5-cent deposit, is it just to make them fit in the recycling better? Our local scrap yards won't take crushed aluminum cans.

 

[Kevin54]

She ain't got nothing on the one that smashed watermelons with her ****.

 

[NUTTSGT]

What's the purpose of crushing them? I'm assuming you mean only the ones without a 5-cent deposit, is it just to make them fit in the recycling better? Our local scrap yards won't take crushed aluminum cans.

Take up less space storing them and you can haul in more at one time. Some people wait and turn them in on Earth Day where they get an extra nickle/lb.


Ohio doesn't require a deposit like our neighbors up north in Michigan. So we can crush them unless the local yard won't take them that way. I know if you take them in, in bags, they run them through a magnet/elevator to sort the "loose" ferrous materials out of the mix.

 

[Gearheadmb]

https://dayton.craigslist.org/tls/d/springfield-minster-55ton-stamping-press/6789280806.html

Not the cheapest can crusher youll ever find, but the build quality should justify the price. Plus with a quick tooling swap your can crusher can become a log splitter.

 

[ratdoggy]

Most places in Australia take them not crushed now. I have not crushed them for about 20 years. This I believe was due to people filling them with something before they crushed them like lead. So much easier not to crush them.

We had a guy bringing in crushed cans and found he was putting sand in them.
Not allowed into our place anymore.

But even better was the washing machine in the wintertime. They must have put in the back of a pickup truck and filled it with water, they then waited for it to freeze and then brought it in to our place....

 

[ynned]

I don't get how crushing cans facilitates putting extra weight in. It seems like crushing wouldn't leave any space; you'd have to put the sand in one grain at a time. If you put sand in first, then the can wouldn't crush, and should obviously have sand in it.

 

[Rc_Guy]

I don't get how crushing cans facilitates putting extra weight in. It seems like crushing wouldn't leave any space; you'd have to put the sand in one grain at a time. If you put sand in first, then the can wouldn't crush, and should obviously have sand in it.

You could put lead weights in the cans and then crush them, I think they would weigh more then.

Our old neighbor made a crusher with a couple work gears I believe they were called, you drop the can in and it would shed the cans

 

[laser3kw]

I do not have any great spots to affix a crusher to the wall in the area the trash can / recyclable bin is ..

I think I'll have to build some kind of stand to put it on then set the bin under it unless someone already has created the answer

I took the wall mounted style and made a 18" x 18" steel base with a 2" x 2" steel post on it that the crusher is mounted on. Just make the height so a good size garbage can will fit under it.
If you were closer you could have it. I don't have cans to crush anymore.

 

[PhantomEB]

Here's mine, versions 1 & 2. The first one wouldn't do tall boys, so I came up with second one. I just put it on the bench with a recycling box underneath, hook up the air, and crush away!

Now that’s what I need to do!

 

[ratdoggy]

I don't get how crushing cans facilitates putting extra weight in. It seems like crushing wouldn't leave any space; you'd have to put the sand in one grain at a time. If you put sand in first, then the can wouldn't crush, and should obviously have sand in it.

You wouldn't believe the **** I've seen as far as scamming.
Couple ounces of sand or dirt in several cans at 45¢ makes a big difference

 

[Ty.]

I made that in the last few weeks. It's fugly but she will crush right down to 20psi or so. I'm right around $40 and some time into it, and if I get around to welding some studs for the switch it will be way more finished.

 

[larry4406]

I made that in the last few weeks. It's fugly but she will crush right down to 20psi or so. I'm right around $40 and some time into it, and if I get around to welding some studs for the switch it will be way more finished.

Pretty neat!

Details of construction?