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Crushing beer cans ?
ksor:
Here is my new project for a "beer can crusher" mounted on a exercise bike !
The bike is stripped and ready for the additional chruncing unit.
Now I have to make the chrunch unit - here is the plan:
http://kelds.weebly.com/daringseknuser.html
:)
Pete49:
well that should give you excercise at least :thumbup: Over here (sth Australia) its 10 cents per can taken to the recycle depot...good tool money and you get the enjoyment of emptying the cans as well
Pete
Lew_Merrick_PE:
Ksor,
OK, but who's going to load the crunching unit? It seems to me that you need an orientation guide system along with an escapement feed and crunched unit ejection system. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right? ;-)
ksor:
--- Quote from: Lew_Merrick_PE on October 14, 2012, 04:46:06 PM ---Ksor,
OK, but who's going to load the crunching unit? It seems to me that you need an orientation guide system along with an escapement feed and crunched unit ejection system. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right? ;-)
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I think gravity will take care of the crunched cans and the loading is done with a sort of box where the empty cans is organized so that they will automatically fall (by gravity) into the crunching camber - OK, I'll have to see if it works when I finished the welding and mounting - but I think it will work :med:
andyf:
I find the most effective way to crush cans is to lay them on the floor and tread in the middle with my heel. Little pressure is required to flatten them, leaving the ends sloping inwards. I then fold the ends in and down with the soles of my feet. This requires less effort than crushing them axially.
The only problem is that the first stage (where the ends lean inwards) can leave the can clamped to my heel. But a mechanical "crush, then fold the ends down" version could use something with a better shape than my shoe to deal with the first stage.
Of course, you may want to expend more effort, to burn off the calories you took in when drinking the beer.
Andy
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