Air Powered Can Crusher Test Session
Channel: Aaron Schwarz
Date: 2022-02-16

Got the new California Air 1P1060SP air compressor to use with my new pneumatic aluminum can crusher. Here you see the action related to this setup & testing it :) Able to process several large paper grocery bags worth of cans in about an hour. This was way less intensive on me than my hand can crusher that I have featured in previous videos. This makes a $300 can crushing setup thats neither loud not energy intensive. The small air compressor only draws 4.8 amps at 120v & that produces enough air to fire a can crush every 5-7 seconds with the air compressor running continually. If I let the compressor charge all the way up, I get about 2 quick can crushes before the motor fires up again. Using the second hand on my analog watch, I operated such that I loaded a new can & pressed the foot pedal once every 8 seconds or so. I used a lot of time lapse editing to make this video shorter, ended up being 4:20 lol 

These smashed beverage cans will be dried, then smelted in a 10lb propane fueled metal furnace inside a metal oxide crucible to which a small chuck of silicon added & some boron flux, the dross removed & then cast into small graphite crucibles to make little aluminum bricks. I have an idea to make a "thermal energy" storage device using this "condensed aluminum alloy" as the heat energy storage medium /// see future videos for such content. 

Thanks for watching. Sorry about the high pitch buzz in the audio, I was pressed for time & forced to finish the edit quicker so I could get back to work on time. My file workflow disallows me to leave huge editing files on my computer. I record the clips with my iPhone. I upload the clips into iMovie. I edit using iMovie & then export to .mp4. I then preview the short clip & if ok, upload it to YouTube, otherwise delete & re-edit more & then export & upload. While my videos are uploading I write these descriptions. I also add some hashtags so that people can find the videos

Sugar free flavored beverage cans, tonic water cans, beer cans, pop cans, aluminum cans of different shapes & sizes. I am after the aluminum metal alloy, with its small content of magnesium from the can lids. Silicon chucks added to the smelting liquid hot aluminum to improve the casting flow performance, less than 1% by mass.