Two-way can crusher - GIF

[Altair]

Two-way can crusher.




Previously:

Mini steam traction engine can crusher
Car cube crusher - GIF
Concrete pillar crusher - GIF

[WorkerB]

Pity that the can feed gate mechanism isn’t shown in its entirety

[C Tucker]

My can crusher is only one way, but runs right at 45 strokes a minute. It was dirt cheap too. I used some pipe out of the scrap pile, tuned a wood piston and added a cast iron cap, and drive it with the old pump jack from my Grandmothers Red Jacket well pump. I never built a chute or feed mechanism, just feed it by hand. I used it for several years and I still have all my fingers.

[Albert Wilson]

Here in my state the recycling place won't accept cans crushed like that which is really annoying as that machine is cjool

[WorkerB]

Hey Albert, I'm in South Australia too (Golden Grove) and the local depot accepts cans crushed any way you choose.
I fill a Pickle barrel with crushed cans. Holds around 800 ($80 worth).
You need to find a more accommodating recycling centre.
Cheers

[Albert Wilson]

Hey WorkerB I'm in Mount Gambier about 500 km from Adelaide. We only have 1 depo so I guess they can demand what they want. We can flatten them so long as they can read the label. Might have something to do with us being 18 km from Victorian border

[WorkerB]

Albert. That could explain it. Also, I believe reimbursement from the beer brewers and the soft drink manufacturers comes from different sources hence the need to identify the can type.

For the benefit of others on the forum, South Australia uses the 10 cent deposit system whereas Victoria doesn’t.

[Albert Wilson]

I doubt it the depot here just throws all aluminum cans in one container i think they get paid by weight.
My theory is that the public pay the deposit to the shop who pays it to manufacturer who pay it to a deposit handler maybe government... when public return it to depot the get paid and the depot gets the funds from deposit handler

[jdurand]

Power that by a bicycle, and hook a piercer tap. Put in full cans, run hose from piercer tap to mouth...start peddling.

[Frank S]

We went to Connecticut last year and stopped at a store bought a canned drink the clerk charged me 10 cents deposit for the can.
When I inquired about it he said it was so the cans could be recycled. I said OH, well then I might as well recycle it I opened the can and slammed the contents then crushed the can and handed t back to him. My dime please!
OH no, he said we don't buy them back here you must take them to a recycling center but you cant take that can the machine wont accept it after it has been crushed. the cans must be without dents in them or they will not fit in the recycling machine.
So if I understand what you are telling me is that I buy a canned drink empty it then have to carry it around and somehow not allow it to be dented or I don't get my dime back. Id that what you are saying?
Yes.
OK fine, and I hucked in in the garbage bin as I walked out I thought their system sucked