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wagin
01-30-2010, 01:00 AM
A while back I posted inquiry about a can crusher. I finally found one I like. Here it is!
wagin
01-30-2010, 01:11 AM
I attended an absolute auction of a industrial machine manufacturing company and scored!
The arbor press was purchased for $130.00.
I bought 17 bessy "F" clamps, ranging from 8' to 12" for $65.00.
A rigid tri-pod pipe vise for $80.00.
50+lbs. of filler wire, including 8lbs. of NiCrMo-4, 20lbs. of 309L, for $20.00.
I spent $1,000.00 for aprox. $11,000.00 of tooling.

at first I felt bad due to the liquidation of the company but upon researching found out the owner sold out to an over seas comp and retired worth millions.
Stick-man
01-30-2010, 10:05 AM
Wow great find. I like it but a little slow. I always wanted to build a MAN size can crusher. I was thinking of an air cylinder and room for maybe 10 cans at a time. I'm lazy, I have 3 or 4 plastic 55 gal drums filled with uncrushed cans. I drilled holes in the bottom so the rain would wash all the sticky sweet stuff off to prevent bees and such. Anyways I have to put some thought into building one. I was gonna follow in the way of a truck sized oil filter crusher.
farmersamm
01-30-2010, 10:36 AM
I hope you were able to pick up a set of broaches to use with the press:blob4:
Joker11
01-31-2010, 01:05 AM
Heck, I gave one just like that to my buddy a few years ago. I just never used it.
I doubt he uses it but he couldn't let me throw it in the dumpster.
wagin
01-31-2010, 10:48 PM
Heck, I gave one just like that to my buddy a few years ago. I just never used it.
I doubt he uses it but he couldn't let me throw it in the dumpster.

Wish I had buddies like you! My former employer had arbor press in every shop. With some thought ad die fabrications, I used them often.
wagin
01-31-2010, 10:52 PM
I hope you were able to pick up a set of broaches to use with the press:blob4:

Unfortunately no. The auction company grouped the broach sets with a couple of pallets of very nice machining tooling into one lot. It went for more money than I wanted to spend on such. I don't do a lot of machine work. But my best bud is GM of a large cnc shop..broaches a plenty!