Can anybody think of some uses for an unwanted, but operational trash compactor? After a good sterilization a fruit press for wines is about the only thing I can come up with. Hate to throw the thing out but it doesn't really save that much space on my garbage and I have unlimited curbside pickup, so space isn't an issue anyhow. Hate to add it to my scrap iron collection for the next trip to the scrap yard, but it just doesn't seem to be earning its keep here. I inherited the thing...
Alternative lifestyles (machine)
Jan 06, 2007
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I was about to say "clean it up and make a wine press", then I read your second sentence. A trash compactor has a nice reversible motor, usually some cogged pulleys, and a piece of acme thread rod, along with a matching nut.
I would just use it for aluminum cans.
Make a work compartment with a drain, and use it to squish the excess used oil out of used oil filters Cuts down on the recycling quantity.
Make a work compartment with mating dies and a drain, and you can squeeze 3 or 4 oranges (halved) at a time. Production juicer.
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can crusher
Bruce sez:
"> Make a work compartment with mating dies and a drain, and you can
Pretty cool, Bruce ! Now figure out how to make some other dies for an ice crusher. Then, a liquid injector .. e.g. -- automatic screw driver machine.
Bob Swinney
I came to the same conclusion and took mine to the St. Vincent de Paul store.
Dan
;-) can crusher ;-) Just had to say it.
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Joe wrote:
scavenge the parts to attach to a platform to raise/lower a tv from a cabinet or a bed footboard.
regards, charlie
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