Its not a spudgun
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:50 am
A while back I had to make one of these. As you can see its got spudfiles all over it. Can you guess what it is? Shouldn't be too hard.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:53 am
It looks like a home made fence post driver.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:58 am
Add a cookie cutter on the end and it looks like you could make some large diameter burst disks 
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:03 am
Nah its a can crusher.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:05 am
It has a hole in the bottom, not a crush plate.. Are you sure?jor2daje wrote:Nah its a can crusher.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:12 am
Im not sure but i think just the bottom of the can fits in there to keep it centered while its crushing.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:34 am
There are no obvious handles on in so I don't see how it can be a post driver, also the 'hammer' looks a bit lightweight.
Those two fittings and the notches at the base look important, I'm thinking some kind of press or cutter.
Those two fittings and the notches at the base look important, I'm thinking some kind of press or cutter.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:47 am
That would certainly be a cool can crusher. Probably he only one I've seen (tried) is using a large capacitor bank. I only got a little crushing, not really enough current.jor2daje wrote:Nah its a can crusher.
It looks like the notches in the base accommodate the bits where the spring clips onto.Those two fittings and the notches at the base look important, I'm thinking some kind of press or cutter.
Some kind of low energy press maybe?
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:03 am
I know whatever it is, we shouldn't have to be quessing for 4 pages to find out.
Clugs up the forum for no reason...
You have our attention by now...
Clugs up the forum for no reason...
You have our attention by now...
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:35 am
its got spring on th side id say can crusher of fence post driver.
what is it?
what is it?
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:47 am
jor2daje guessed it right. Works pretty good but if I did it again, I'd put a longer throw on it.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:38 am
So what have you crushed apart from cans? Surely you must have some impressive pics...
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:44 am
Preferrably something with bones in it....
Bonecrusher sounds so much cooler..
Bonecrusher sounds so much cooler..
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:52 am
I started to have fun with it once, but learned real quick I needed some sort of remote to fire this thing. We put an orange in it. filled it to 120 psi and let it go. None of us were thinking about the after effect. We all got slattered with sticky orange juice. It was a moment that should have been on video. Then I smashed an unopen can, that was messy as well.
I made it for and sold it to a guy at work. No pics.
Now that you mention it maybe thats a future project. Something built solely for smashing things. That would be cool.
I made it for and sold it to a guy at work. No pics.
Now that you mention it maybe thats a future project. Something built solely for smashing things. That would be cool.