That my friend looks like the highest quality can crusher I've ever laid my eyes on! They are going to find that machine in the year 2872 and scientist will ponder its use for many years after!!! One heck of a nice job!
yeah, little does he know, he's paying more for power then he's making on aluminium.. being 30 cans is only like 80 cents and power around there is 10 cents a kilowatt. funny though the one's that are levered work fine with just your arm..
" he's paying more for power" ... show us some maths. That motor looks like 1/2 HP (approx 375W) or 3/4 HP (550W) at most. It's got a gearbox to provide the torque, so a small motor will do. Facts 1) In Australia (where i live), electricity is around 30c per kWh. 2) This machine crushed 7 cans in 18 sec, lets say 20 sec, which means 21 cans a minute, or 1,260 cans an hour. 3) Also in Australia returned cans can earn 10c a can. So in one hour, the machine can potential earned $126 AUD (assuming cans are ready to be crushed), and for a 3/4 HP motor, electricity is only cost 15c (AUD). Even for a 1.5kW motor (it isn't by the size), it's only $1 AUD. I have no idea how you worked out that electricity cost are more than recycling cans So please do show us your maths..
Not necessary, if you could collect cans from an entire community and put in the effort you could probably get a hundred bucks each week. It's more a "make money from trash instead of throwing it away". A church near me has a can collection program that makes about 600 bucks each week.
True DIY: Go mine the ore, smelt and form it into the bars needed. Then pedal a bike or some shit to build the electricity into batteries (that you, of course constructed... DIY, remember?) to run your power tools and welder. Then put it all together. So simple! DIY, anyone can do it! Not knocking the poster, it's ingenious and a good demonstration of machining, engineering, and welding... but don't call it "DIY" like anyone can do it. Everyone with a foot can stomp a can. Next time, call it "Cool Home-made Can Crusher" or some shit lol.
Pvt Stash you really think this 70 year old man cares what the videos called it just helps views from tags from the name poor feller probably had his grandson help him upload the videos 👴🏼
Absolutely wonderful contraption. With the prices of scrap aluminum going through the roof and being able to compact them into realistic loads I must say that this is a wonderful thing. Imagine sitting around watching youtube videos while you crush cans and then getting 30 bits for the pound for them. Aluminum cans are abundant and littering the streets. For a couple of hours you can pick up cans and at the end of the month get back a few hundred dollars. Brilliant.
In Finland we have recycling system. You get 0,15 € reward from every can you take to your local store. 100 cans=15€. 95% of all cans are recycled in Finland.
30 cans = about 75 to 84 cents in scrap aluminium here. its recycled here too, but they actual give you the cost of what its made of, your getting ripped off. smash em down and sell it....
@@Bramon83 what is wrong in your head? Did you read somewhere that I wrote that he wrote something wrong ?! i just opened an invoice so that everyone can imagine how many cans it takes to earn how much money! if anyone's a little idiot here, it's definitely you 🤣😂🤣👍👍
I think some of the folks with negative comments might be missing the point. This apparently is a labor of love. The builder is a very skilled person and I enjoyed watching his use of the angel grinder. Very skilled indeed.
I mean who doesn’t have expensive table saws, welding torches, welding masks, angle grinders, drills, vice grips, metal pipes, and a workshop just lying around the house! So easy! Thanks!
Excellent engineering, quite practical (compressing--less space/more weight) Have used wall mounted hand operated devices before....this is far superior. GREAT JOB, THANKS FOR VIDEO
@@Its_Captain_Jack_Sparrow mines always came out straight even when i squeezed it flat in my hands, and you think i would care with grammar i speak with different accent, or change my voice to sound deep to cover my real voice
@@Its_Captain_Jack_Sparrow i don't really edit my grammar because it want bad after i started learning Russian before it did after my English in writing mostly
If it cost $400 to build, and the machine can make $1.5 per kilo of cans crushed. It will need to crush 266.67 kilo/266670grams to create $400. 1 can weighs 14.9 gram, so approx 17897 cans are needed to break even not including fuel cost of cans and so forth. At 2.14 seconds to crush a can, it needs 38299.58 seconds to crush the 17897 cans. So it would need 10.638 hours.
Not really. Everything but the angle grinder, and welding machine you can get for free from scrap heaps/recycling centers. The angle grinder and welder would also become tools you can do pretty much anything with too. Turns a one-off project into a nice hobby. Hell, with practice, maybe even your own business. Businesses aren't made by college grads. Businesses are made by regular people with the tools to make their ideas a reality. Those non-college grads then pay college grads to do the tax filing for a small percentage of the loot 🤣 The meek own the world already. If only more people saw this, and tried to do the same for themselves, we'd have less couch potatoes demanding others give up their earnings so they can continue the couch potato life uninterrupted 🤗
well in germany you get money by bringing the cans back. No need to crush them Edit: since many people don't read through the comments: You pay 0.25€ more for cans/ plastic bottles. If you return them you get 0.25€ back.
@Jason St-Coeur LMAO faceplant. The recycling station in Germany needs to be able to scan the barcode. Difficult if you already crushed them. After the barcode has been scanned the cans are crushed...
@@AstralApophis actually the cans have a set value that is not comparable to the market value of aluminium. You get 0.25 € per can. The aluminium market value is 0.39€ / kg. A can is roughly 15-16 gramms. But other then that you don't make Money from it since you buy the cans for 0.25€ more. It's to produce less waste and stuff. I know that you americans aren't the best at that. The only people that make money from it here are homeless people that look for cans and bottles from people who are too lazy to return them.
@@galliance Funfact. Our (Coke)cans arent made from aluminium but from iron or some iron alloy as you can see on the recycling sign which says "FE". Yet there are other cans like from Rockstar which are made from aluminium. Weird to talk in english to another german tho.
I collect cans to melt and cast. This would be really handy for people like me that actually use the crushed cans instead of selling them on to a recycler. The motor alone makes this silly if purely for domestic can recycling.
you literally could just step on them and they are as flat as in the video... I wonder how many tin cans you had to crush to make the motor itself pay of all the work excluded, also that the recycler probably also pays for normal ones an even if not you can crush them by hand/feet
May be overkill but I bet this machinery could run 24x7 as long as you had several people feeding it. Of course, I don't think it would work with bent cans without manual loading. I like it!
@@benediktfrasch2812 Earlier in the video he appeared to smash them thinner but at the end they're not as flat. It appears he needs to adjust the placement of the motor, or have an adjustment device, so it totally smashes them. Of course, this saves your foot and shoes.
@@benediktfrasch2812 I have done this before by hand, most of the cans come from the streets and are disgustingly dirty, the beer cans usually have decomposing liquid with bad odor wich means dangerous bacteria, if you smash those cans with your feet or your hand and your cut your skin youll get a horrible infection for sure, also is very tiring to smash 300 or 500 cans using just your feet so this machine is a wonder for the people that make a living from recycling aluminium.
@@elrickking9293 I don't think you would have to build something like this from steel plates and weld it... mostly wood would do the job also if you have a welder and all this stuff you don't have to make a living from aluminium cans
Great video ! Definitely not on the cheap side of DIY, but for a more industrial or long runs it's definitely worth it. I recycle aluminium cans for casting parts as a business. This is definitely a design I am considering using.
I see a chap on my way to work picking cans up and placing them in the road, on the way home I see him picking up crushed cans and putting them into his bag.
Unfortunately it really doesn't pay to recycle aluminum cans anymore. Cost per pound is laughably low if you account for inflation, and so much now days is in plastic bottles there's less and less cans out there.
stefan Lopez When I was scrapping aluminum it was 50-60 cents a pound depending on the grade of aluminum. I was told that the Chinese (go figure) flooded the market and that’s why the price crashed. True? I do not know, but I know I could no longer flip aluminum for a profit after the price drop.
@@sooverit3258 back then they are using real aluminium, now they change to composite of tin, China have bigger tin mine than US, so the price is very low compared with Tin made in USA, so many big industry in USA start to import from China and slowly replacing aluminium with tin so yeah the bottle now is 100x cheaper than what it used to be because different alloy. not China fault for big companies in US bought it for in the first place. the real aluminium itself still in high price both US and China have same respectable value.
I love these kinds of projects. My grandfather dumped them in the driveway by the thousands. His farm truck got them just as flat no matter which way they were oriented.
I bought a can crusher and was getting ready to go through the tedious process of crushing thousands of cans until a co-worker suggested to do what your grandfather did. Now I have to unload a can crusher somewhere, LOL !
The craftsmanship of this is amazing. I'm sure there will be less "dislikes" if you remove the "Make money from your aluminum cans" from the title, because, let's be honest, if you take into consideration the time, tools, materials (steel, paint, freaking motor!!) there is no "make money" in this. But for pure personal satisfaction, is a great project. Congrats!!
it might be a little to heavy but the way he is crushing them is the strong side of the can. you can stand on a pop can if you can balance well and put all the force straight down. I can do it and i'm 200 lbs.
what a wonderful gizmo you have created, sure you can buy similar things from tool shops etc, but showing the creative flair you have using old scraps really is both entertaining and inspiring,
@@j.c.cannon2112 putting "DIY" in the title of the video implies that anyone watching can do it. I agree with Josiah, this is not DIY. Sure he did do it himself but aren't all things done by someone?
about 100 dollars worth of parts, that's 2000 cans worth.... if your a smelter it makes smelting easier and less labor intensive..... tbh, watching what he did, I'm not a machinist and i can figure how to put something similar together without using a lathe and just using a bench grinder, side grinder and a belt sander. total cost of parts including tools is 300 bucks and the tools are multi-use for other projects.
2 Tipps for you 1. Don't push while welding! Pulling while welding will make youre welds look better 2. Don't paint somethink untill it's completely done. IF something doesn't work and you have to change something you have to paint it again.
This is a master piece of fabrication. I'm thinkin he doesn't need the money for the crushed cans but loves perfection. Best can crusher I've seen. All the others are far less efficient. He just loves showing off lol.
Back in the early 90s they had can recycler centers on corner streets, it was about 20 cents a pound, I was about 10 years old at the time and I found out that if you fill half the can with dirt or sand and crush it, it would take about two to three cans to make a pound instead of the 34 cans. I would clean that machine out once a week with a bag full of cans. Not the honest thing to do but growing up poor around that time when my parents lost their jobs due to shutting down I needed a way to find money so my parents and little sister could eat. I felt bad but had to do what I must do survive.
@@yogidemis8513 I collected cans as a kid, in the 80's & 90's. We used to crush them, until the recycling centres stopped accepting crushed cans because of people like yourself. We couldn't collect as many once we had to keep them uncrushed. :(
In some towns like mine mostly where people drink alot you can crush your cans and give them to someplace and it doesn't make as much money as in the thumbnail
Put it to work crushing cans that people bring to you. Or set up can collection points that people drop cans at. It'd be a good side hussle if someone has time. Or for someone with a disability.
They give 5cent per cans in most grocery stores here(the 5 cent is charged when the canned beverage is bought and they given back to whomever brings the can back)
@@yoanngirard8780 That's because you are paying the 5 cents when you buy the can. It's an incentive by the government to prevent people from just throwing them out.
I get 10c ea for them here in South Oz. Cans have a deposit. That machine needs a few different guides, 375ml cans, 350 ml as well as energy drink can all being different dimensions.
Thank you for sharing, excellent work and video, I wish I had that machine hear we have in the shop 1.872.000 cans and growing, and they take lots of room in the yard. If the employees keep drinking I will have to order one from you LoL. Have a bless day.
Como faço para comprar essa maquina de amassar latinha para eu poder trabalhar??? Tenho 62 anos sou alfaiate e fui demitido preciso de uma maquina eletrônica de amassar latinha .
Well, if you figure 2 bucks per every thousand views, he's made about $4,000 with this video. I'm guessing the money he gets for the actual cans is less than he's paying for the electricity to run that machine, though.
@@whatsthebigfndeal At any time, expect 20-35c per pound. Right now for some reason my local guy (texas) is 40c a pound rn. You need around 24 cans to get a pound.
@@mrskunk4732 24 crushed cans for $0.40... or 8 non-crushed cans with a $0.05 CRV (California Redemption Value)...hmmm... let me think that one over ;-)
@@gregall2178 Tell me about it! I grew up in Michigan. 10c. It was how I funded my childhood :p Now I'm in Texas and no deposit, I donate them to the schools.
Ya gotta love ingenuity. Nice job! Now just weld a little chute so the crushed cans roll into a garbage can with a plastic bag...and then a twist tie machine. All that’s left is to have your kid take the cans to the recycle facility while you kick back with a cool one!
I don't usually think of metal work as beautiful, but because of your skills and care, this was. Thank you. A question: Could you modify this crusher so that it could handle regular TIN cans (like soup cans)? If so, I think you could sell a lot of them, because in all my searching, I haven't found a single company that's making a simple, affordable powered tin-can crusher. Aluminum, yes; tin or steel, no. Best, Chris (Maine, USA)
The cost of this device plus the electricity bill REDUCE THE PROFIT of the recycling effort and all the products (grinder discs, welding equipment and consumables, the spray paint, etc...) are all BUT ECOLOGICALY benefical!
I need one for pet food cans and veggie cans to save room on recycling. Soda (Pop) cans have a nickel deposit around here. Dont drink enough to sell for scrap aluminum
Just 1 hundred years! If you can recycle 20 lbs of cans an hour for 5 hours a day for only 1 hundred years, you too can off set the probably $30,000.00 worth of equipment and parts to make your very own. Very practical. Love it.
@@georgecavanaugh8615 Ignoring the lathe, a welder, grinder + disks, bench vise and drill press can be had very cheaply and even the cheapest ones are more than capable of letting you build this machine. And in this case, the lathe can simply be traded out for time sanding the ram to shape, or simply using round stock that more closely fits inside the other. People like to wallow about the cost of tools to do projects found on youtube, but this one is not one of those projects.
You can buy a manual can crusher for less than $10 and get strong arms while doing it, which might help to offset the stupid amounts of calories you take in from drinking soda. It probably won’t help you afford the repair to your teeth, nor will it compensate for a lifestyle that involves more sitting than walking, but it’s better than an automated crusher that you can use from the sofa while you dig the remote out from between your fat rolls.
To those thinking 'refundable deposits' are the best idea... Lets presume a 10 cent deposit. They also add those ten cents to the price of the can in the first place.So a 2.10 can of redbull would cost 2.20 to buy, and you get .10 back for the empty. The store then weighs the empties in and pockets the 0.01. So you end up paying 2.10, and the store makes 0.01 from recycling, per redbull can they sell.~ Where there is no deposit, you pay 2.10 for the can of redbull, and *you* own the empty, so *you* can recycle it and earn the 0.01 - meaning the can effectively only costs you 2.09 if you recycle it, and still the same as a refundable (2.10) if you dont, with the added advantage you dont lose another 0.10 if you cant take the empty home with you.
Он показывает 900 баксов. Для этого надо собрать 40000 банок. И это без учета материалов на станок и электричества. Мне тоже кажется, что ногой эфективнее :)
I spent $20.00 on a can crusher, 15 minutes to get some screws and mount it. Pop open a beer for one hand, crush cans with the other. After 15 yrs., still using the same crusher, still enjoying my beers.
SELVA! Saudações ATLETICANAS. Great video, brother! Very nice!! But, i can't believe there's people who deslikes this video!!! ( 1.902 idiot ) É isso! BRASIL ACIMA DE TUDO. DEUS ACIMA DE TODOS!!!!!!
Man you are good ! The precision and simplicity.. nothing left to chance, everything robust and well thought out. It was a pleasure seeing it work flawlessly. Great job !
I Jeng Johnnie funny 😁 story i got collected lot of Alu. soda 🥤, beer cans and smashed it with my feet. I took it along with solid bars and aluminum scrap to the local scrap metal facility. So far so good 😊 rite . I got my receipt 🧾 and went to cash 💰 it at the ATM MACHINE the facility has for that purpose. What? $9.35 I went back to the guy that operates the scale to asking why so little money 💰. He said that because I mixed the cans with the solid aluminum I got paid 💰 for aluminum cans price... 🤔
It’s DIY if you’re a welder , it’s not considered DIY if you’re going to give the measurements to a welder . Just show the video to the welder he can figure it out maybe even make it better .
not to mention how many cans you have to crush to pay for the welder, the material, the motor, and electricity. my grand father had a hand held can crusher that used elbow grease and cost about $15 dollars to make.
@@dcos5 One could just add a recycling fee like most of europe does.. we pay around $0.11 per can when we buy soda, wich we get back when we reycle them at the store (most stores have machines for that). Result? Like 85% of the cans (there is recyling of plastic cans to) are recyled..
@@jmkhenka Most Americans I suggested that to (that haven't been here to experience it first hand) were very skeptical... The majority of them really doesn't like change.
И заметь, за те деньги, что стоит мотор и редуктор, можно купить пять пар обуви с металлической подошвой, и топтать эти банки в пять раз быстрее и на протяжении ста лет
@@thesas5110 Иногда нужно понимать шутку юмора. А если б я делал такую штуку, то не настольный вариант . А наша страна и отличается от других, тем что всё там показное. А мы изготовили автомат Калашникова, с такими зазорами, который в принципе не мог работать, а работает. А вот такое, что на видео, эт для показухи
Сергей Гуров я просто сам собираю банки из под напитков и пива,ноги забиваются топтать,т.к в день прессую примерно 4000-6000 банок на одну ногу.А наша страна очень богата же как образованными медиками,также же в сфере технологического прогресса.Говорят Японцы не могут понять как устроен функционал нашей гранты,что бы использовать те же фишки при создании своих иномарок:)
But if same 30-40 cans is only 2$ and you can get a pound of clean aluminum when melted down to a bar that same bar clean can be sold for anywhere from 4-8$ Canadian essentially making the value increase by 2-4 times (applies to other scrap metals as well)
@@OGCBDB what's the cost of running the machine and melting the cans down into clean aluminum ingots plus the loss of aluminum as slag during the process?