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Well my parents are gettin up there in age, and manual can crushing just isn't working anymore on the old elbows. So I decided after seeing a youtube video of a couple of can crushers to go ahead and make my own for them for xmas.
Test fitting:
Add some supports to the back plate:
I had to do a lot of work on the hole to get the cans to fall through, but not to go through before it get's crushed.
So my parents go through a decent amount of pop cans, and we tend to hang onto them and turn them in for value at the scrapper. Why not make a little money back.
Well my parents are gettin up there in age, and manual can crushing just isn't working anymore on the old elbows. So I decided after seeing a youtube video of a couple of can crushers to go ahead and make my own for them for xmas.
Test fitting:
Add some supports to the back plate:
I had to do a lot of work on the hole to get the cans to fall through, but not to go through before it get's crushed.
Solenoid mount location:
Everything getting mounted:
So I hit a BIG BIG BIG snag 2 days before show day (yesterday). The solenoid I ordered was a 24VDC, which I never thought would be so hard to find a power supply for. Well, I go to Radioshack and get a 24V power supply... not thinking about the fact that the guy handed me an AC power supply (DOH!!!) Thank god I metered it before I tried hooking it up :-)
So what should I do... build a rectifier. And viola, 24VAC to 24VDC.
Should get some video of it soon :-)
I'm not happy with some of my welds, as I was really rushing to get something together as the "design phase" got a little longer than I expected and I severely underestimated my time :-(.
I still need to mount the power receptacle, and clean things up. Also I would like to paint it black to prevent rust or anything like that. And I also need to make a trash can clamp so the crusher can just sit on top of the trash can we use to collect the cans. (Also need to add a hopper)
