Two-way can crusher - GIF

Two-way can crusher.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2579#post96643
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...640#post136461
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...804#post148286

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

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.

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

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

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

We can take dented cans but not squashed top to bottom

If I buy from across the river in Iowa, I have to save the cans undented, and take them on a 40 mile one way trip to find a 'recycler'.
It's easier to toss them in the garbage at the local HyVee gas station, so the crackheads can dig them out for pocket change.

Here in South Australia it's not that bad. I have woolbails and wait till they full. I am only about 8km from depo

Here in Texas you crush them up as small as you can get them pack them in a garbage bag and haul them to a metal recycler you get paid the daily market price for the grade of aluminum they are. not a return on some artificially imposed deposit that the machine will reject if it has an out of state bar code. In my opinion states which use the deposit return system are nothing more than a way to covertly charge another tax as they know full well that probably less than 10% of the cans will ever be returned for deposit the rest are going to be either tossed in a rubbish bin or sold by actual weight at market price. I don't' accumulate very many cans so the ones I have get smelted into something I can make something out of.
My thing is I have probably amassed over 250 lbs of 2 ltr drink bottles over the years and need to make a grinder to granulate them either for selling as granules or melting them down into a slab or block so I can make something out of them

In South Australia something like 90 odd percent of stuff with deposits get returned. We get 10 cents per can/bottle but only in this state.

Here the people who pick up the curbside recycling get paid that deposit refund for any cans/bottles they pick up...even if the bar codes are wrong or can't be read.

Our depos don't scan barcodes

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

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

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.

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