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How should Ben continue building his automatic can crusher? Post your idea + you might get a free Ben Heck t-shirt!

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Ben Heck needs your help! In the latest episode he explores different ways to build a solenoid-powered automatic can crusher. They're looking for your suggestions on different ways to build and power the can crusher. Post your suggestions here for a chance to win a Ben Heck Show t-shirt! Ten submissions will be randomly selected after Oct. 24.
 
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    A fast and fun way to SMASH those cans. Connect a 20oz CO2 bottle to a pneumatic piston that would be activated by a fun grip button.  Load the cans via a magzine style loader.  The smash cylinder could have a hole at the bottom back end to let the smashed cans fall freely away. The button (trigger), control board and valve could theoretically be harvested from a cheap electric paintball gun.

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    While I like Davids idea I'm thinking hydraulic may be a safer way to go. We can reuse some rain water for this idea if necessary. I like the solenoid as well and I want to expand on it a little more. Self admittedly I'm not an engineer or a physicist, but I think the solenoid just needs a more steady plus constant current and voltage applied to it. Put it in terms of the image supplied and you can turn the solenoid into a hydraulic ram. This is just a musing though and possibly over complicated. It would require electrical synchronization between the two rams via a transformer to up the voltage to the solenoids. AGAIN i'm not an engineer. I'm just going on what I've seen. Let me know what you think. imageimage

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    While I like Davids idea I'm thinking hydraulic may be a safer way to go. We can reuse some rain water for this idea if necessary. I like the solenoid as well and I want to expand on it a little more. Self admittedly I'm not an engineer or a physicist, but I think the solenoid just needs a more steady plus constant current and voltage applied to it. Put it in terms of the image supplied and you can turn the solenoid into a hydraulic ram. This is just a musing though and possibly over complicated. It would require electrical synchronization between the two rams via a transformer to up the voltage to the solenoids. AGAIN i'm not an engineer. I'm just going on what I've seen. Let me know what you think. imageimage

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