air powered beer can crusher

[renolaw]

in rubicon springs last year just before JJ we met this guy w/ a pnuematic beer can crusher on his rig-- mounted up by the spare tire carrier. . a ram, channel iron, a switch and a slotted bag to catch the flat ones. we're looking for pix or a design suggestion. have OBA so thats the easy part. he had a cool 'bar' trailer pictured below. any help here?

this is only thread i can find

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-324387.html

here's the trailer all folded up. recognize it?

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/RARECJ8/DSCN3667.jpg

mb

[mtnkid85]

hmm wonderful, now I need to start looking to this. Very interesting idea!

[renolaw]

the guy that owns the pictured trailer has the coolest crusher. i wish i had a pic., hence this thread. the basic idea is a switched pneumatic ram that travels down a short piece of channel iron to crush the beer can. there is a hole in the bottom end of the channel that allows a crushed can the then fall thru and into a slotted bag to dry out. i can likely build it from memory, but getting the air ram is the challenge. anyway, cool tool-- push a button, woosh, the ram slams home and crushes the can and then resets to the open position.

mb

[Nordic1]

Here's an easy way... Via MSPaint from my school's crappy computer

Ram mounted on the top of a box
3 way valve (air in, air to ram, exaust air from ram)
done

You could also attach a piece of chain or mesh wire to the back of the ram that connects to the center of the bottom of the box so that the can automatically falls into a bin after its been crushed

[waywardfool]

Just an FYI for right-coasters, I don't have a link but there's a guy that keeps posting used take-out pneumatic cylinders on the raleigh craigslist raleigh.craigslist.org I don't know anything about him, 'cept he posts an ad every once in a while.