I saw an awesome diy can crusher made primarily from two counter rotating automotive tires. A hopper would just feed them by gravity and they would get caught between the tires. A bin below would catch them.
"Yeah its kind of like a puzzle" "Not just taking a puzzle apart. Its like putting a puzzle together the right way, I guess there are probably puzzles like that too"
QuantumFluxable It's ok, it's already going to look (and smell) absolutely horrid after all that soda/beer builds up on the inner workings. At which point the crusher will become even less effective.
I can't tell if Ben should go back to uni for a little bit of ME crossover love, or if he should run back to his workbench and comfort his soldering iron, which is clearly crying because of neglect. Either way, this was fun.
no wonder something so simple as crushing cans has to be crowdsourced, doing it the slowest way possible , noone would ever expect to see a return on something so complicated and slow to something that can be done en mass with simple technology. trying to reinvent the wheel
Hey Ben, I've watched your show for a while now, and love all of the builds you do. I was wondering if you could make a useless box (where you flip the switch and then an arm extends and flips the switch off again!). I think it would be pretty cool, and you could put your own twist on it! Thanks for the awesome content!!!!!!! :)
Setting the bottom and top of the crusher part on a angle will make the machine more efficient. The first compression on a cylinder is really strong when linear. But angled is gets folded easily.
Interesting design. Once this project is finished, I'll post my video response to this. I have an idea to make this a bit easier and allow for manual rotation (I have kids, they like to do it themselves). Can't wait for part 2! What kind of torque do you think you'll need to overcome the friction of the cam assembly? Doesn't seem to move very easily right now.
It looks like the screws in the rack will wobble quite a bit, and that may prevent it from going up and down smoothly. If you had something like rounded rectangles there, or at least spacers to keep the screws firmly in place... It might work better.
You could make a paper "can" (Ben's Beer, perhaps?) to simulate the crushing mothion, without sacrificing the intergrity of the build material. Obviously, without the motor, it's pretty hard to simulate the motion, hence why paper would be easier to "crush" than whatever the real cans are made of. ;)
The gear will touch and wear out against the non toothed side and if it doesnt the "sliding" mechanism will also have to take a lot of side forces, if the pins are tight in the slots, you may have too much friction for the motor to handle, if there is play then the gear will wear out some more. It's not simple and doesnt look effective at least in the middle run, it seems likely to fail because of wear in the sliding pins or gear.
The metal ball bearing will absolutely demolish the plastic around it after a couple uses, maybe give the ball bearings metal walls to contain the balls somehow?
There is going to be a ton of friction in the system. Why not use bearings on the axle and the linear slider? Glad you used ball bearings in the outer ring at least. They seem to work well. I'm impressed.
Ben Heck, can you try to make a Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, or any other Linux running development board to make your own Google Glass, or "Linux Glass?" Also, could you attempt making a "wearable computer", sort of like a Linux computer but its parts are sewn into clothing so that external devices can be attached? I'd like to see you attempt some wearable tech sometime in the future. Thanks Ben!
A trash compactor design would work. Although you would need some heavy equipment. You could crush all of them at once. A big metal 55 gallon drum. An extra hydraulic cylinder ( I happen to have an extra... doubt if that is common though). A big wooden circle. That goes down and crushes all of them at once then comes back up.
I have 3 or 4 POS SYSTEMS that I got from a local restaurant after they upgraded, they are NCR Touchscreen Systems .... Could you use them for a future project or do you have any ideal what I could use them for .... I would appreciate any ideals that you might have, I was thinking about maybe using them to build maybe a home automation control system are something like that.... Maybe you could take one and do something really cool with it, So I can follow. Thanks
I'd love to build a can crusher but where I'm from cans are recycled and you get paid to bring in empty cans/bottles so crushing them would be a waste of money :P
To all the foreigners bitching about not recycling: That's the whole point of crushing the cans. There are a few states in the US where you pay a deposit at the market and you can return them to the store to get your money back, but everyone else takes them to the scrap metal yard to get the cash out of them. Why would you want a bunch of cans full of air and taking up space when they are all getting melted back down anyway?
I agree with a couple of other people. Sliders was an awsome tv show, and this is overly complicated. I would just make a slowly spinning flywheel with an upright plate connected to it, that flips 90 degrees, then have a plate compress the can small enough that it drops down a hole..... What I do in real life is like @Tim_fox said - I have a small forge/smelter and I melt scrap metal into ingots....
what an overly complicated and elaborate way to crush a can... Gut feeling says that if it works, it won't work for very long. A lof of force is put on the pinion, and way too much friction all around... A lot of places to fail.
This seems like a pet project. A good pair of shoes and a solid stomp would achieve the desired effect quickly. Although where I am at, the recycle depot doesn't like cans crushed vertically. They want to see what kind of a can it was before they will pay the refund.
Don't you hsve container-deposit in USA? In sweden we have a system where you can return your cans and get a lite bit of money back, its good because they can reuse them... You schould do that, not crush them
I was wondering why not have a wheel with 4 slots in it. Then use the cam idea to rotate the wheel 90 degrees to crush the can using an outer ring that was angled to get closer to the inner wheel as it turned. Then once the wheel rotates another 90 degrees, the crushed can would drop out the bottom. You would only have to run the motor one direction instead of back and forth. Also, less moving parts.
why do you have a nerf gun sledgfire ( sledgfire in the back ( back table) . Are you a nerfer . do you do comissions ? . I liked so much your videos because they educate me .
I wish I knew how to make a homemade can crusher I'll do it for the apartment life people that some people in the apartment life it might like doing Kansas Cash in a little extra money on the side but that's okay it doesn't hurt to have a can crusher so I wish there was one that you plug into the wall or wherever you want to take you that it goes in the outlet you plug that you put all different types of cans in their tall or small you'll smash the cans and then you get Plumbing your trash bag and then when you think you got enough cans you go take them to the recycling place and get some money for it I wish someone would do that an electric can crusher you plugged up to any Outlet it don't take much room up anyway and it will work perfect you just hit the button watch the can smash and no problem it'd be like having a toaster in your apartment but be shaped like a can crusher and it could be used for tall or small cans or just a regular pop can just as well that would be cool if someone could do that cuz I'll buy it in a heartbeat make it like make it like $9.99 plus tax that work is doing you how to make it can crusher the can crusher will be made for the apartment life people that like to do cans maybe someone can come up with the idea and put it on the market and I'll be the first person to buy it
What a terrible episode. He explained it over and over and over. Like 10 times. And he made very little progress. Design it, explain how it works. Add a piece of foam, explain how it works, more foam, explain how it works, more foam, explain how it works, more foam, explain how it works again. Holy smokes.
I don’t know, I’m 5 mins into this video and seems way over complicated for a simple action. Two wheels, opposing each other, with a hopper on top to feed. Simple effective. Requires only one mechanical movement, that is the turning of one wheel.
I saw an awesome diy can crusher made primarily from two counter rotating automotive tires. A hopper would just feed them by gravity and they would get caught between the tires. A bin below would catch them.
It is not overcomplicated, It is well engineered. thanks for another amazing out of the box idea
Yay! A Sliders reference! One of my favorite shows from the 90s!
Awesome! Can't wait for part 2!
"Yeah its kind of like a puzzle"
"Not just taking a puzzle apart. Its like putting a puzzle together the right way, I guess there are probably puzzles like that too"
Was that a new delta 3D printer that I saw in the back at around 4:30?
Best day of the week, new Ben Heck show episode :)
what engineering program is he using? it looks pretty useful
Commenting so I get notified if there's an answer.
I'd like to know too.
MrKrilars1 Yes, I use Adobe Illustrator for my designs.
I didnt see you put in any grease or lubricant whatsoever in there, maybe that would make it smoother (and at least make it wear less)
sounds like a good idea, although that would look ugly as hell with the lubricant going dark on the white plastic.
White lithium grease
QuantumFluxable It's ok, it's already going to look (and smell) absolutely horrid after all that soda/beer builds up on the inner workings. At which point the crusher will become even less effective.
Hilariously over-engineered, but effective!
I have been watching pretty much from the start of the show
Not sure about it's effectiveness but I do agree, hilariously over-engineered. :p
aw man, now I want to see part 2 ... Do I really have to wait another week?
This thing is ridiculous! Fun to see such an out-there project!
Crazy Idea with the rotating motion. Might just work.
I like the way your building this.
By the way, I noticed you guys are using higher framerates when doing screen capture, and it looks loads better!
I can't tell if Ben should go back to uni for a little bit of ME crossover love, or if he should run back to his workbench and comfort his soldering iron, which is clearly crying because of neglect. Either way, this was fun.
You made more Borderlands references than you might realize during this show. :D
Ben, What do you use to cut your Sintra PVC?
Part 1? Commmonnnnnn
no wonder something so simple as crushing cans has to be crowdsourced, doing it the slowest way possible , noone would ever expect to see a return on something so complicated and slow to something that can be done en mass with simple technology. trying to reinvent the wheel
Hey Ben,
I've watched your show for a while now, and love all of the builds you do. I was wondering if you could make a useless box (where you flip the switch and then an arm extends and flips the switch off again!). I think it would be pretty cool, and you could put your own twist on it!
Thanks for the awesome content!!!!!!! :)
Setting the bottom and top of the crusher part on a angle will make the machine more efficient. The first compression on a cylinder is really strong when linear. But angled is gets folded easily.
Interesting design. Once this project is finished, I'll post my video response to this. I have an idea to make this a bit easier and allow for manual rotation (I have kids, they like to do it themselves). Can't wait for part 2! What kind of torque do you think you'll need to overcome the friction of the cam assembly? Doesn't seem to move very easily right now.
It looks like the screws in the rack will wobble quite a bit, and that may prevent it from going up and down smoothly.
If you had something like rounded rectangles there, or at least spacers to keep the screws firmly in place... It might work better.
i see a delta 3d printer. a video coming soon?
or you can just step on the can
Ikr :p
Yeah buts it's designed to use less energy, therefore you can drink more
great work... your idea rocks
You could make a paper "can" (Ben's Beer, perhaps?) to simulate the crushing mothion, without sacrificing the intergrity of the build material. Obviously, without the motor, it's pretty hard to simulate the motion, hence why paper would be easier to "crush" than whatever the real cans are made of. ;)
The gear will touch and wear out against the non toothed side and if it doesnt the "sliding" mechanism will also have to take a lot of side forces, if the pins are tight in the slots, you may have too much friction for the motor to handle, if there is play then the gear will wear out some more.
It's not simple and doesnt look effective at least in the middle run, it seems likely to fail because of wear in the sliding pins or gear.
Please share the files :D
The metal ball bearing will absolutely demolish the plastic around it after a couple uses, maybe give the ball bearings metal walls to contain the balls somehow?
There is going to be a ton of friction in the system.
Why not use bearings on the axle and the linear slider?
Glad you used ball bearings in the outer ring at least. They seem to work well. I'm impressed.
Why not an inductive can crusher with cap-banks? :D
If you flatten it lengthwise, I think you could do something like a rotary engine to do it all in one rotation.
Cool! I have been waiting a long time for this
Doesn't a CNC work like the opposite of a 3D printer?
They are both Computer Numeric Control.
If you mean one takes away material while the other adds it, then yes it is the opposite.
Danielle Smith thanks. if you can tell where to find a cheap 3D printer, that would be nice too
Quentin Jankosky Peachy printer
Incredible. I am now a subscribe to your channel. I don't intend to build this, but I still find the video fascinating.
I had a diet Pepsi at Famous Amos today. Since I don't drink the stuff normally it made me think of Ben lol
the important is to use less energy to crush the can than it took to create it
Why the fuck are you crushing cans?
- Canada
This seems pretty cool, but for the amount of soda I drink (almost none) my $6 Harbour Freight can crusher seems just fine.
10:10 "devlopment[sic!] kits"?
ben heck singing =10/10
11/10, +1 for not using any accompaniment
Ben Heck, can you try to make a Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, or any other Linux running development board to make your own Google Glass, or "Linux Glass?" Also, could you attempt making a "wearable computer", sort of like a Linux computer but its parts are sewn into clothing so that external devices can be attached? I'd like to see you attempt some wearable tech sometime in the future. Thanks Ben!
A trash compactor design would work. Although you would need some heavy equipment. You could crush all of them at once. A big metal 55 gallon drum. An extra hydraulic cylinder ( I happen to have an extra... doubt if that is common though). A big wooden circle. That goes down and crushes all of them at once then comes back up.
So, what about 16 & 23 fluid ounce cans? :-\
Who thinks Ben needs to build a video game console :D Thumbs up if you think he should do that next!!!
Yay First ! Awesome because Ben drinks lots of cans of pepsi / coke
I have 3 or 4 POS SYSTEMS that I got from a local restaurant after they upgraded, they are NCR Touchscreen Systems .... Could you use them for a future project or do you have any ideal what I could use them for .... I would appreciate any ideals that you might have, I was thinking about maybe using them to build maybe a home automation control system are something like that.... Maybe you could take one and do something really cool with it, So I can follow. Thanks
I'd love to build a can crusher but where I'm from cans are recycled and you get paid to bring in empty cans/bottles so crushing them would be a waste of money :P
crush core sounds like acore from the game Portal that has a big sledgehammer.
overcomplicated ... but it seems to work ( i guess )
Agree :D i think using two drums would be easier
Ben doesn't really seems like enjoying this build...
The poor cans won't see it coming lol...
Very clever!
To all the foreigners bitching about not recycling:
That's the whole point of crushing the cans. There are a few states in the US where you pay a deposit at the market and you can return them to the store to get your money back, but everyone else takes them to the scrap metal yard to get the cash out of them. Why would you want a bunch of cans full of air and taking up space when they are all getting melted back down anyway?
Just get a brick!
Project I am working on: Alarm system for my house^^
You could use a brick for that too!
I agree with a couple of other people. Sliders was an awsome tv show, and this is overly complicated. I would just make a slowly spinning flywheel with an upright plate connected to it, that flips 90 degrees, then have a plate compress the can small enough that it drops down a hole..... What I do in real life is like @Tim_fox said - I have a small forge/smelter and I melt scrap metal into ingots....
what an overly complicated and elaborate way to crush a can... Gut feeling says that if it works, it won't work for very long. A lof of force is put on the pinion, and way too much friction all around...
A lot of places to fail.
I remember the first time he tried this :)
a good way to get started with elektroniks is making arduino projekts. btw i´m getting educated in elektroniks :D
seems to me a simple dead weight with a hoist that drops it on a can would be the simplest solution.
...omg...I may have lost IQ points from watching this...
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It's from the italian youtuber rulof fai da te
This seems like a pet project. A good pair of shoes and a solid stomp would achieve the desired effect quickly. Although where I am at, the recycle depot doesn't like cans crushed vertically. They want to see what kind of a can it was before they will pay the refund.
Build a raspberry pi tablet!
Don't you hsve container-deposit in USA? In sweden we have a system where you can return your cans and get a lite bit of money back, its good because they can reuse them... You schould do that, not crush them
everyone says its complicated maybe, but thats not the point point is building something
verry good tres bien mosieur c'est bonne idee
In germany you get money for the cans that you bring back to the supermarket :DD
Make an arcade stick that will work on any console/pc.
this is waaay to complicated...
a piston, and a half pipe with an endstop and a whole in the bottom would be a much easier way to solve this...
But it is slow. If you want to crush 20 cans a minute ?
i am pretty sure the design i have in mind would be much faster then what he is building...
A brick would do it!
I was wondering why not have a wheel with 4 slots in it. Then use the cam idea to rotate the wheel 90 degrees to crush the can using an outer ring that was angled to get closer to the inner wheel as it turned. Then once the wheel rotates another 90 degrees, the crushed can would drop out the bottom.
You would only have to run the motor one direction instead of back and forth. Also, less moving parts.
Tim Fox sounds good, you mean an inner wheel with cutouts and an eecentrick outer one?^^
crush the can horizontally not vertically so can just feed cans into drums like a paper shredder, this is super complex. K.I.S.S
I remember watching this back ehen i drank soda
why do you have a nerf gun sledgfire ( sledgfire in the back ( back table) . Are you a nerfer . do you do comissions ? . I liked so much your videos because they educate me .
JunTao Zhang It's just fun to have around!
Why not flatten it?
Hy, I think it would be interesting to make (foldable) portable
ANDROID TV box!!
you are so much better at electronics....
Crush! Kill! Destroy!
I wish I knew how to make a homemade can crusher I'll do it for the apartment life people that some people in the apartment life it might like doing Kansas Cash in a little extra money on the side but that's okay it doesn't hurt to have a can crusher so I wish there was one that you plug into the wall or wherever you want to take you that it goes in the outlet you plug that you put all different types of cans in their tall or small you'll smash the cans and then you get Plumbing your trash bag and then when you think you got enough cans you go take them to the recycling place and get some money for it I wish someone would do that an electric can crusher you plugged up to any Outlet it don't take much room up anyway and it will work perfect you just hit the button watch the can smash and no problem it'd be like having a toaster in your apartment but be shaped like a can crusher and it could be used for tall or small cans or just a regular pop can just as well that would be cool if someone could do that cuz I'll buy it in a heartbeat make it like make it like $9.99 plus tax that work is doing you how to make it can crusher the can crusher will be made for the apartment life people that like to do cans maybe someone can come up with the idea and put it on the market and I'll be the first person to buy it
no tech time out
Thank god.
***** this is amazing!
Smart idee Ben!!!
please stop drinking diet pepsi
Way over complicated but nice work all the same
Is this Minecraft?
lol
Diet pop? shit man...
What a terrible episode. He explained it over and over and over. Like 10 times. And he made very little progress. Design it, explain how it works. Add a piece of foam, explain how it works, more foam, explain how it works, more foam, explain how it works, more foam, explain how it works again. Holy smokes.
I think be n likes reddit
I'm the 800th like
or you can just pante it
first commenter!!! yeah baybe!!!
I don’t know, I’m 5 mins into this video and seems way over complicated for a simple action. Two wheels, opposing each other, with a hopper on top to feed. Simple effective. Requires only one mechanical movement, that is the turning of one wheel.