I'm about 20yrs older than you and seeing this really makes my day. I've done some what we thought were amazing cutting edge builds. Young people can now collaborate together with social media, and shop online for any part imagineable without waiting "6-8 weeks for delivery" like we used to. It's just freakin awesome! There is hope! It's in my favorites now.

@Pistonpedal

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much and sorry for the late reply!

@Akeirbuah

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pistonpedal 7 years later 😂

@Pistonpedal

2 жыл бұрын

@@Akeirbuah hahaha, better late than never right?

@EliTheShaman

15 күн бұрын

As a 20 year old I agree with ur observation

This is a pretty impressive piece of automation. Very well done.

COOL project!!! It's also gotta be one of the most AWESOME man-caves I've ever seen... Strong work!

By far the best single can crusher out there !! Congratulations !! I'm more on the bulk size !!

Sweet, You got the Know how and the materials and Great job. Love it.

Great build! Enjoyed the video

Great Build and even greater video, cheers mate!

Two to four feet of additional feed tube space after you replace the trash bag method with a finishing compactor . Great video . Thanks .

Bad ass! U put alot of thought in that. Obviously your knowledged in pneumatic operations. Bravo! Pretty cleaver

Congrats even if it's not the fastest it is hands down the coolest one

Simply(but not simple!) amazing!!!

Nicely done! Ray

It is probably one of the coolest can crushers I have seen.

@Pistonpedal

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate the feedback!

@davidsullivan1194

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pistonpedal do you sell this can crusher by any chance. I would love to have one since I have had shoulder surgery.

@Pistonpedal

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidsullivan1194 I have sold them but they are not very cheap. Message me @ vwroast at hotmail.com and we can discuss there ;)

10 years and still the illest on KZread!! The bar is set to high!

Thanks! The tapered chute is a series of 24" to 12" to 4" to 3" ductwork reducers. The final 3" was key straighten the cans. I cut out an opening in the largest reducer to allow for the tossing of cans. There is a beveled disk inside the hopper which guides the cans and eliminates jamming. All of the exhausts from the actuators are routed to the hopper to agitate the cans so they don't jam.

I like the combination of pneumatics and motors in your crushers. What is even more fascinating, you are using a simple microcontroller to do it all. Even better, still, you thought of ways to make the process efficient, and and use the waste/discharge outlet of one to do another job.

No doubt you earned some bragging rights with that one.That thing is sick!

Excellent job!

Awesome machine buddy well done .

I really like the design. Very high tech. You posted on mine a while ago about what optical sensor I used. It is actually a cheap proximity sensor that senses metal. With aluminum it almost has to be touching the sensor in order to be "seen." I can't remember where I got it, but a google search for proximity sensor was the start. Again, nice crusher!

thats really cool man nice job

This is the best can crusher on youtube!

Great job done!

still the most bad ass crusher on KZread. you should sell them. or draw up plans with specs and sell those. I would be interested. great job!

Works great. Crushes tall cans and small Redbulls. Only cans it has issues with are bent cans and pure black cans (but it still gets em most times).

Ejector is an airline routed from the exhaust of the main actuator solenoid. The line comes in behind the panel and aligns with the slide cradle.

This is totally awesome!

Why has no one made a commercial version like this yet?WTF is wrong with the world!

thats badass and freaking creative

Youre brilliant my friend

Great machine and well put together video!

This is really cool!

Awesome, proper talented.

Thanks! My plan was to make it as easy as possible and still have the ability to crush any sized can out there. The only can it has trouble with are the smallest redbull cans or a badly dented can which will get stuck in the narrow part of the hopper. Material bill was just under 700 however those are all brand new unused parts. The priciest part of the build would be my time. I could likely re-create it in about 20hrs or so. Thanks again!

luls, you just put a "face" on "overengineering".. this is awsome .:D

So legit! My shop NEEDS this

could you design a 30+ can capacity hopper for it and still have it feed cans consistently? You wouldn't think a can crusher could have so much engineering behind it. This is truly impressive. I've seen a lot of can crushers on youtube and this is the only one I have seen that is fully automatic. Just dump the cans in the hopper and the machine starts/stops working by itself. bravo.

two thumbs up in my book.

Main items were 1 Arduino, 3 actuators (there is a tiny one imbedded on the side of the black loading chute to hold the cans), 2 limit switches, 2 - 2way 5 port solenoids and misc. tubing,wiring and electronics. Lots of free time was the main ingredient.

GOOD LORD THIS IS AWESOME.

@derwood773

3 жыл бұрын

Do you do arduino stuff too?

The best one I have ever seen!! I have looked at over thousands of designs and videos and the is my all time favorite!! Super great job!!

I build my first in 1997 yours is the best I have seen! Unbelievable

@Pistonpedal

3 жыл бұрын

Peter. Hatch thanks Peter!

@PeterHatch-mx7zc

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pistonpedal your welcome

That's why I have a H2O knock out pot at the compressor outlet. It is pretty dry where I live so no rusting so far.

I like it!! Wish I had one!

you're the man!

awesomely done, an auto feeder for the hopper would be cool.

Nice, Kudos for Bloc Party.

I found your invention as a result of a search. WAY more advanced than what I had in mind. Personally..I was looking to invent this product to be available to the average consumer. You probably have a patent, if not...you should. Great idea. Lower the technology and make it available. I would buy it in a heartbeat. Here is something to think about. Make it as simple as putting a can in a slot...and drop in a recycle bin, I would spend about $150 for that product. Good job on the Keystone cans.

Awesome! Do you have plans or a parts list?

Excellent idea! All you need is a baler. Good luck!

Fantastic! Ton of time and money went into that one. Love the hopper! Would be nice to have a close up view of what you mean by the beveled disk inside the the hopper. Too many hoppers out there are too precise. I love the idea of toss it in and let the machine take care of the rest. Good Job.

Good job man!!!! :)

I am interested in getting one. Way cool.

Good automated and mechanical design for manually feeding cans by hand. Fill your hopper with normal dented and twisted cans and you will be surprised to know that no plc or mechanical feed will be able to compensate for different shape feed cans.

@Pistonpedal

4 жыл бұрын

Adobo partially true. The cans can be different heights and sizes. Small red bull cans right up to tall cans are crushed easily. Dented cans are crushed and fed through the hopper as well. Cans that have more than a 15mm width deflection won’t make it in so this is where you are correct.

This is awesome. What kind of sensor did you use to sense the can?

awesome every man and woman needs one

so in final stage would you ditch the breadboard and etch your own board? I just see the continued vibration as a place for resistance and capacitance over time. Excellent execution, nice simple picker action and smooth

This seems like a completely reasonable solution to a vexing problem.

thats badass !!!

I love this design! i wanted to make one that could crush in mid air, but i dont think i have small enough cylinders to go fast enough for that. I will most likely be making one similar to this in the near future!

@Pistonpedal

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks and have fun with your build!

Brilliant! Does the hopper clog if you throw too many in at once?

that was pretty killer. what did you use for the tapered shoot? or did you fab that yourself?

Very cool. I like how you incorporated a drinking game into smashing the can. What sensor did you use with the Arduino Micro Controller?

Probably the smartest man drinking Keystone.

what a good job i need one of these do you have a set of plans at all??

Also I have never worked with or looked at arduino's, looks like some of the wiring there with the breadboard would be time consuming, and I try to limit my structured text programing (I like function block and ladder). Do the arduino's only offer structured text programming? Have you considered a cheap PLC?

Hopper jammed at the end. That's the problem with can hoppers. And don't plan on this thing "paying for itself", unless the parts are free. Lol I love it though.

Very nice machine.

that is so badass !!!

I like the vertical idea ... low horizontal footprint ...

Amazing

Do you have one with spikes to do water bottles (PET #1), and a larger hopper to hold a lot? Meaning 30-40, or are the different sizes a little challenging right now? Still super awesome! Great job!

Verry Nice! Do you have a Documentation about this Can Rusher? Would Love to see what Parts you Actually used.

Awsome !!!

Dope soundtrack

Woow man well done!!....

very nice

The cans can be slightly bent but not totally warped or they will get stuck.

you should put a small chute on the exit so they make it into the trash more often. Or maybe turn the air pressure down. Other than that it is an amazing device.

Bad news first, Disappointed at the perhaps last third, it became a music jam video, which washed out conversation away. Good news, for the ingenuity triple score, apply for a design job, perhaps transportation, aircraft. You never know, if you make this into a public trash can size, how many bus stops and subway platforms could use it. A improvement could be a lift to make it ADA compliant, thus lifting the cans and reduction of litter. Next, work on them water bottles, saw off the ends, make one lengthwise cut and nest and bale them. The memories of seeing a video far out in the ocean, bottles floating everywhere!

This would be great in a restaurant where space is tight. Consider adapting it to do large soup and veggie style cans. With a little work you could off load the steel cans and the aluminum cans in separate bins.

i love it

Way cool dude

did you add a can counter to it? im thinking of adding a ounter on the ejectionside. adding one on the y le side of the program would only ount cycles and not an actual can being ejected, great work btw, princess auto eh. luv it, hellow from toronto area. cheers

Aaah.. free time.. that's what I need most.

Any chance of getting the plans you used to design and build this thing?

I had a quick question about your can crusher. I'm planning out the same project, and was planning on a simpler approach, but decided to follow fairly closely in your footsteps. (The more I plan out the project, the more I keep stumbling across the solutions you already have in place, so am just going to work closer to your plan, and I figure that will solve some problems before I even find them, haha) Your red bucket feeder, how did you decide on a height for the angle to start from? (Bucket height vs angle start) I can't figure out how you've managed to feed tall cans and regular ones without having either the second regular can getting bound, or not properly feeding the tall can. I suspect you don't have any plans available, (and like he design challenge anyways) but this one thing I am having troubles with on paper! I would love to hear your thoughts!

How long did it take you from ideas to finished design ?

It looks like all of the cans were the same length. How does it work with a mix of short and tall cans?

That’s badass

Here is a suggestion. What if you added another air cylinder (for crushing on the left side) and added another can holder on the end of the shuttle cylinder (moves left & right) so in every stroke it would load a can on one side and crush/drop a can on the other. Double the capacity and throughput. What do you think?

is looks good that it is all done now

Do you have asset of plans for this cool Crusher??

I use my head to crush my cans.... rock on

Cool! How much does it cost per can to crush?

maybe not the simplest but it does the jobb without a problem i would build or buy it

Hey man, Awesome Job! What actuators/pistons did you use and what Pneumatic Air Solenoid did you use? is it a 5 port 4 way? I have a princess auto HQ just down the street from me, and want to attempt this build. thanks bud!

@Pistonpedal

9 жыл бұрын

Hello, Actuators are 3"x 6" stroke and a 2" by 4" stroke I think. Solenoids are 5 port 4 ways from Ebay. like 18 bucks each.

I know this is late, but you could add a Pneumatic Ball Vibrator on the infeed. When it stops seeing cans, run the vibrator for 5 seconds, or add a button you can press to shake it/start up.

@Pistonpedal

4 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea!

Wow, I just noticed this is from 2012! I wonder if this could be redesigned with newer parts into a smaller unit. I challenge you to try (and video it of course)! :)

what are the dimensions of the funnel/hopper or where dit you buy it. im a student in belgium and im making this project as my final project. is it a ventilation tube or what is it.