these cans have liners to preserve the contents and prevent the can itself from weakening. can designed for cola, beer, cocktails or water will have different liners. but, if the water canning company got a good deal on other cans, it could be any of those. i'm saying this as someone who briefly worked in the beverage canning industry, so you crafty and resourceful folk know it's not just aluminum in there. if your project doesn't involve high temperature, it's probably fine. but the cans are all different, which surprised me to find out. keep making stuff, this is really neat! cheers from alaska
@@justcallmejim Can't show you, moved away from there 30 years ago, but on google maps I can still see the structure is standing, but no close-up details. To describe it: I cut the ends off the cans and split them, flattened them, painted them (both sided with automotive paint). Then overlapped them by 30% to cover the top nails (nails had a thin rubber washer on them) and hide them and layered them like they were cedar shingles. Ending with a bend at halfway point to cover the peak. I joined them with a layer of silicone under where the nail hole was.
I immediately thought of making shingles for some reason and went straight to the comments before the video even started. This was the first comment. 😜 Clearly, it’s a popular idea.
@@ShavinMcCrotch It was a labor-intensive task, but the cans were free, I was young, and why not. There was a "Campbells soup label" thing at our school, they took the labels, I took the cans. I ended up with 4" by 8" metal shingles, the next size up cans I used for the peak. It had a 6' pitch. I took one small nail and nailed the round lids onto the roof just because I didn't want to throw them away. I did it cold (no heat at all) pounded them flat with a rubber hammer.
Hi Kevin. First time seeing your video. I'm a big fan of recycling and upcycling. I'm also an aluminum metallurgist and engineer for a large consumer of aluminum cans, where we melt over 2 million lbs. of cans a day. I'd be happy to help out in anyway if you ever have questions regarding the materials, where they're sourced, or any general industry information. Keep up the great work! Recycling aluminum takes about 1/5th the energy required to make new aluminum billet for products, so it really is the best recycling program out there. It's a shame it's not more highly promoted over plastic recycling, which is very, very ineffective.
Where were you about12 years ago !!!!! I used to make signs and sculptures for red bull out of their cans. Can not tell you how much this would have helped !!!! Great idea❤
I don't understead why people are freaking out about the price, it's something meant for people who need to cut hundreds of cans, not just a few or a dozen, also cutting it by hand it tedious and it give uneven and rough edges, I think this is a smart design, props to you and best of luck
Outstanding work! Loved your idea, execution, and transparency telling how many prototypes you had to go through to make the current model. Far too many people assume that a good solution just happens without many iterations. Well done! Thanks for sharing.
Great method for getting flat sheets. I will definitely try this in the near future. I planned on using aluminum cans as shims in my metal lathe for to protect softer metals from the chuck jaws.
Excellent idea, keep up the great work. Obviously location plays a big role BUT for simple & easy DIY projects that require a little metal out of the elements, this is perfect. Top notch fella to make the plans available for 3D printer owners on top of it!
That’s awesome dude! What a great product. I’m going to print one and start saving my cans for cool projects. I always saw the potential, but getting the end result material was always an obstacle. Not anymore! Give this man a prize 🏆 😊
Thank you for making these! Especially out of recycled plastic! I have been waiting for a friend to 3D print me one for over half a year, life has just been too hectic.
For your next prototype, try using a lead screw placed horizontally, under the base. You'll have to extend the cutting legs under and put them on some kind of rail. Fix one side to be stationary and the other can be adjusted by the screw. Play with different threads to make the adjustment speed faster or slower depending on how precise you need to be. Great work!!! Keep on making!
Ingenious! I particularly like your use of the cans as “shingles”. With the right mix of brands/colours, I would imagine the effect could be quite beautiful.
So there are "universal" oil filter wrenches that look almost exactly like this design but they slide on a spring as you rotate it to tighten down. If you make the side be able to slide on a preload like the oil filter wrenches, its a much faster and more efficient way adjust for diameter than using a philips head screwdriver and manually making adjustments. They also make cutting tools already for cutting aluminum oil filter cans open to inspect the filter element. Might want to look into those designs also
You could bolt only one side of your cutting jaws, guide slide the other and have a retention spring. Now you can cut any diameter without prior adjustment. Basically have the jig resemble a drum brake or velocity clutch
Yes It might work only if the blade doesn’t wobbles, any slight misalignment will affect the cutting effectiveness. But since most of the cans standardized within those 3 diameters, I went for the more stable way.
@aboutkevincheung maybe springloaded blade? Doesn't make the design easier, but what do we have 3D printers for? But also maybe tou can buy an XL jaw pipecutter, after all it's the same principle
Ever since I saw the movie The Black Hole I've wanted to make a huge model of the Cygnus. Several obstacles got in the way not the least of which was the cost of a malleable material to make it out of. You may have just solved this problem. 🤩
AMAZING cross over from Project Camp, great to see Kevin. I want one, although we rarely use cans. Look forward to the follow up video of projects made from the sheets
Man! I just found this channel. I had the same idea but only with empty baked bean cans, since I eat beans quite often. Upcycling has really changed the way I see things around me.
Thanks for the files, I’ll definitely print one of these. I put cans around my plants with copper foil attached to keep the slugs away, so this will make it way easier.
@@hugoacpin Sure. Molluscs (slugs) use a copper-based carrier known as haemocyanin to carry oxygen around their body. When the slugs touch the copper they can receive a mild shock. The copper ions interfere with the mucus that slugs produce, causing a disruption in their movement and bodily functions. This is uncomfortable for the slug, therefore they tend to avoid copper tape/netting. It’s a trick deployed by many gardeners and there’s quite a few TH-cam videos covering the subject. Personally, I don’t think it’s 100% full proof as I have still observed a slug make it past the copper barrier and onto the plant. However, it still vastly reduced the destruction of my plans from the previous year without any protection. Hope this helps!
This is awesome, and such a simple way to help reuse aluminum. Thanks for contributing such an ingenious invention to the environment, to hobbyists, and cheapskates (I'm both for sure 😂) Bravo! 👏🌎
I've built an outdoor survival structure with them as the shingles on the roof like you have already shown!!!! It started ☔ raining🌧️ and there were no leaks!!!! I then decided to side the outer walls with them and it made a little difference in blocking out the outside temperature 🌡️🤒!!!! Later after thinking about it I drove my off roader out with a media blaster and removed all the ugly colors and then shot it with camouflage and then an outer coat of thick polyurethane over the entire outside!!!! It's now been there for 15 years and still doesn't have any leaks in the roof and can easily be heated up with the wood burning stove I built for it deep in the ground and ran pipe all around the inside of the little structure and outside back to the fire 🔥 and it heats up the water 💧💦 inside the pipes in turn heating the entire inside without creating carbon monoxide within the little place!!!! We gave it to a guy we found on our property that was trying to live in a tent 🎪!!!!! So now his leaky tent ⛺ became a fairly decent porch covering but we've been collecting cans ever since so now he's building a solid porch roof!!! Everyone please 🙏🥺 try your best to be safe and healthy and take care of yourself and your loved ones!!!! And hopefully have a fantastic Christmas ☃️🎄!!!! And Howdy Howdy from Deadhorse Alaska, Alvin Texas and Aroostook county Maine!!!! 🐻🤠🚁🛩️🚜🚛⛴️🚤🛳️🚢🛶✈️🛫🛬!!!!!
This is great! Maybe now I’ll finally do something with that pile of pretty empties that I have in a closet, lol. I experimented with making things with the metal before, but was really put off by the trimming process. They are so sharp and hard to cut smoothly when round. Thanks 🥰 also with the housing crisis, we have it was exciting to see that roof was tiled in these?!
Nice tool! I was able to cut the bottoms off of cans for a re-use project, by screwing a scrap of 1/2” ply on my workbench, then screwing a utility knife blade down to the scrap, with just a bit of the tip sticking off the edge of the ply. Worked great and allowed me to slip cans into each other with the tops providing a pass through for connective flow, in vertical tubes for a solar air heater project. I found screwing down a strip of ply at 90 degrees to the “cutter block” in the right location helped center the can against the contact point of the blade, made it easy to keep light presssure on the opposite side to score/cut without denting.
Fun fact: the lids and tabs are made from a different alloy of aluminum. By simply removing the top in this way, you get the ductile alloy used for the can body without any contamination from the lids and tabs. Recycling from this point would nearly eliminate the processing cost to recycle into another can body while recycling the lid sections separately would reduce production costs significantly, only adding a small amount of alloying metals to compensate for the small amount of body material left behind from the cut
@@RandyCampbell-fk3pf That sounds like way too much work. I just throw the cans in the garbage because I know that there’s more where they came from. 🍻
@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes Once you've already done the work to get the aluminum sheets though, the bottoms and tops can be easily separated and stacked for different purposes. The lids (and tabs) are a stronger alloy than the bottoms if you decide to melt them down later.
Just be aware that cans usually have a super thin liner of epoxy or polymer inside them that you cant even see. If you put them near flames or try to laser cut them you will start burning it. "Aluminum can, minus the aluminum!" Is a good video to watch about it.
@@eugsmiley A good suggestion! H.I.M. is totally my jam, I'm glad more of their stuff has ended up here. Apparently there is varnish on the outside as well protecting the ink, and the inside is a water based varnish.. now I wonder how the soda isn't dissolving that.. maybe why very old sodas aren't a great idea to drink.. and why some can even rust through he can..
Ooooh this is perfect for shielding in audio projects. I was looking for ways to get shielding into plastic enclosures on the budget and this seems perfect. My other vote was iron mosquito net
Brilliant. I made a roof out of 2 liter bottles, but found that gathering them was tedious. It took so many more than I could have ever imagined. I still up-cycle as much as possible, there is so much free and cool stuff just laying around, waiting to go to the land fill.
I keep thinking about your aluminum can roof ever since I saw the Project Kamp video when it first came out. You've definitely earned my subscription, and I’m excited to see more creative uses for those tiny aluminum sheets.
Glad you enjoyed the Project Kamp video! All the feedbacks gave me a lot of inspiration too😉It's great to see people interested in creating cool stuff with aluminum cans❤️
Scissors work fine if you know how to cut with them & have a good pair of metal sheers. What you made is just a basic pipe cutter with standard pipe cutting blades. Only difference with your pipe/can cutter is you turn the object you're cutting instead of turning the cutting tool itself.
This is great!!! We drink allot of sodas and recycle our cans but now I’d like to up cycle them into art now that you showed an easy way to utilthrm. Awesome job!!!
I have 3d printed many can cutters, tried extensively to research cutters, and have even tried to make scrappy ones by hand. I have found no solutions up until now that have pleased me because they almost always require sharp knives/blades that just coat everything in an aluminum powder (and I can NEVER figure out how to adjust them correctly). Suddenly this video pops up in my feed a long time after giving up, and this is EXACTLY what I had been dreaming of. Many of the cutters/solutions that I have seen have either required jostling knives around or even having the blade cut through the wall of the can. This technique which gets mostly though the can but not 100% has worked decently well for me because once a line is established, you can just tear the can down the crease. I am happy to see a design that seems to work just as advertised. Will there be a video with instructions for which parts to buy and how to best sharpen the spacer?
*in my 60's goldsmith/master jeweler, photovoltaic/solar thermal technician, other trades too This Is What 3D Printers Are For. love your prototypes. this is where all my trades and experience goes out the window my Jaw dropped in admiration. i remember that video of you in south america making that roof with aluminum cans* *slaps subscribe button* 👍
I really think that this is just what I need to make a few projects that require aluminum cans as the medium. I'm going to print your model and give it a try. Thank you.
im more into melting down cans myself, but this invention is very very cool. thank you for providing the print profile. i'll print one of these up and give it a go!
run the curled aluminum through 3 offset rollers to 'un-curl' the can body to automate and standardize the output repeatably and standardized flat sheets.
yes, finally. I tried your previous video's method and was sorely disappointed. this will make things much easier. Also, I 3d printed an expanding collet/mandrel to handle the can deforming as soon as you pop one end off. so you can pop an end off completely, shove the mandrel in there, and then easily handle the other end.
It's really cool to stumble across a local channel with original ideas and contents. Your vids are definitely a fresh breeze of air in our city. Ga Yau!
Now all you need to do is come out with a line of desktop sheet metal tools. Little sheer, press-break, maybe a small press with or a rivet tool or maybe even a spot welder made from one of those amazon battery spot welder kits.
Very god job young man. Keep it up and never stop thinking and up cycling. Much to my wife dislike I have saved sheets of cardboard cereal boxes and scrap metal and use it to make templates and other things.
Very cool idea! Similar in concept to a tubing cutter or pipe cutter, identical cutting process. I like your implementation because it sits flat on the table; you could easily modify it to screw it down if you plan on cutting cans in large volumes.
@@REVNUMANEWBERN tin cans from vegetables work great though. Uncle Aubrey's roof needed to be maintained but the flattened cans worked quite well. With 11 kids they didn't have much money but they did go through the cans.
Take a sander to remove paint and internal P E lining. Next stack two or more rectangular sheets together and spot weld them. Simple chassis for DIY projects could be made. My lithium battery spot welder has two capacitors with the size of a can of coke each. It should make a weld.
these cans have liners to preserve the contents and prevent the can itself from weakening. can designed for cola, beer, cocktails or water will have different liners. but, if the water canning company got a good deal on other cans, it could be any of those.
i'm saying this as someone who briefly worked in the beverage canning industry, so you crafty and resourceful folk know it's not just aluminum in there. if your project doesn't involve high temperature, it's probably fine. but the cans are all different, which surprised me to find out.
keep making stuff, this is really neat! cheers from alaska
In the 70's I made an entire 20' by 30' peaked roof out of Campbells soup cans, it is still standing and not leaking to this day.
I would like to see this
@@justcallmejim Can't show you, moved away from there 30 years ago, but on google maps I can still see the structure is standing, but no close-up details. To describe it: I cut the ends off the cans and split them, flattened them, painted them (both sided with automotive paint). Then overlapped them by 30% to cover the top nails (nails had a thin rubber washer on them) and hide them and layered them like they were cedar shingles. Ending with a bend at halfway point to cover the peak. I joined them with a layer of silicone under where the nail hole was.
Wow,amazing!!
I immediately thought of making shingles for some reason and went straight to the comments before the video even started. This was the first comment. 😜 Clearly, it’s a popular idea.
@@ShavinMcCrotch It was a labor-intensive task, but the cans were free, I was young, and why not. There was a "Campbells soup label" thing at our school, they took the labels, I took the cans. I ended up with 4" by 8" metal shingles, the next size up cans I used for the peak. It had a 6' pitch. I took one small nail and nailed the round lids onto the roof just because I didn't want to throw them away. I did it cold (no heat at all) pounded them flat with a rubber hammer.
Hi Kevin. First time seeing your video. I'm a big fan of recycling and upcycling. I'm also an aluminum metallurgist and engineer for a large consumer of aluminum cans, where we melt over 2 million lbs. of cans a day. I'd be happy to help out in anyway if you ever have questions regarding the materials, where they're sourced, or any general industry information. Keep up the great work! Recycling aluminum takes about 1/5th the energy required to make new aluminum billet for products, so it really is the best recycling program out there. It's a shame it's not more highly promoted over plastic recycling, which is very, very ineffective.
Thank you for providing the 3D print files for your invention for Free. Awesome. Very generous
We need more ppl to make better use of these material 💪🏻
Yup, subbed my dude. Good stuff.
Yes, great ideas and generous spirit-thank you for being a true servant leader! Very inspiring.
Where were you about12 years ago !!!!! I used to make signs and sculptures for red bull out of their cans. Can not tell you how much this would have helped !!!! Great idea❤
I don't understead why people are freaking out about the price, it's something meant for people who need to cut hundreds of cans, not just a few or a dozen, also cutting it by hand it tedious and it give uneven and rough edges, I think this is a smart design, props to you and best of luck
I remember the video on the roof tiles , gonna have to try to this already
Releasing the STLs is such a great move. I really appreciate that
Have one side spring loaded on a pivoting arm.
Like a pvc pipe cutter.
Spring load the blade and the arm and it will be able to cut any size.
That could work only if it doesn’t wobble as it rolls, as any slight misalignment with the blade will affect the efficiency of the blade greatly
The aluminum shingles you made for Project Kamp still amaze me. I look forward to the day when I can try it for myself.
You helped me.
I have always thought to use aluminium cans to build a nice looking rc place.
And this will make it so much easier.
Thanks bud
This seems pretty similar in concept to the rolling-blade pipe cutters. Might be worth studying those a bit to get some ideas.
The neighbors are going to love my new beer can roof! I hope my liver doesn’t fail before I get the roof completed. 🙏🏻
All you can do is try.
Flavored seltzer comes in some interesting colors while taking some stress off the liver. 😆
Ppl make ingenious excuses for their alcohol abuse.
Try soft drinks, your kidneys gonna fail long before your liver. ;)
Maybe go for a walk and pick some up out of the roadside ditches.
That was my same idea.🍺
Outstanding work! Loved your idea, execution, and transparency telling how many prototypes you had to go through to make the current model. Far too many people assume that a good solution just happens without many iterations. Well done! Thanks for sharing.
So nice to see old members from Project Kamp in the wilds of TH-cam! And thanks for the video!
The gift of a mold?!? That's a great guy to know! 😎✌️
We need more thinking like this. God bless you sir!
this is so cool! all the waste we could keep from landfills or the ocean with technology like this.
No clue what underdeveloped shithole you live in, but here in the EU we already collect and recycle all this stuff.
you can keep it from landfills only if you have a use for them. if you cut cans but don't do anything with it, it's still trash
Great method for getting flat sheets. I will definitely try this in the near future. I planned on using aluminum cans as shims in my metal lathe for to protect softer metals from the chuck jaws.
This is rad and you're awesome for open sourcing the plans. I also really dig the marbling effect on the cutters, looks great.
Excellent idea, keep up the great work. Obviously location plays a big role BUT for simple & easy DIY projects that require a little metal out of the elements, this is perfect. Top notch fella to make the plans available for 3D printer owners on top of it!
Glad you found it useful 😊
That’s awesome dude! What a great product. I’m going to print one and start saving my cans for cool projects. I always saw the potential, but getting the end result material was always an obstacle. Not anymore! Give this man a prize 🏆 😊
Thank you for making these! Especially out of recycled plastic! I have been waiting for a friend to 3D print me one for over half a year, life has just been too hectic.
For your next prototype, try using a lead screw placed horizontally, under the base. You'll have to extend the cutting legs under and put them on some kind of rail. Fix one side to be stationary and the other can be adjusted by the screw. Play with different threads to make the adjustment speed faster or slower depending on how precise you need to be. Great work!!! Keep on making!
Ingenious! I particularly like your use of the cans as “shingles”. With the right mix of brands/colours, I would imagine the effect could be quite beautiful.
Wonderful. I have often wondered whether they could be used as shingles for a roof. Well done.
So there are "universal" oil filter wrenches that look almost exactly like this design but they slide on a spring as you rotate it to tighten down.
If you make the side be able to slide on a preload like the oil filter wrenches, its a much faster and more efficient way adjust for diameter than using a philips head screwdriver and manually making adjustments.
They also make cutting tools already for cutting aluminum oil filter cans open to inspect the filter element. Might want to look into those designs also
This is what TH-cam is for! Excellent job sir. Thank you so much for your work and creativity. You are doing great work, my friend.
You could bolt only one side of your cutting jaws, guide slide the other and have a retention spring. Now you can cut any diameter without prior adjustment. Basically have the jig resemble a drum brake or velocity clutch
Yes It might work only if the blade doesn’t wobbles, any slight misalignment will affect the cutting effectiveness.
But since most of the cans standardized within those 3 diameters, I went for the more stable way.
@aboutkevincheung maybe springloaded blade? Doesn't make the design easier, but what do we have 3D printers for? But also maybe tou can buy an XL jaw pipecutter, after all it's the same principle
Ever since I saw the movie The Black Hole I've wanted to make a huge model of the Cygnus. Several obstacles got in the way not the least of which was the cost of a malleable material to make it out of. You may have just solved this problem. 🤩
AMAZING cross over from Project Camp, great to see Kevin. I want one, although we rarely use cans. Look forward to the follow up video of projects made from the sheets
Man! I just found this channel. I had the same idea but only with empty baked bean cans, since I eat beans quite often.
Upcycling has really changed the way I see things around me.
That metal shingle roof was pretty cool.
Thanks for the files, I’ll definitely print one of these. I put cans around my plants with copper foil attached to keep the slugs away, so this will make it way easier.
hi McSteve, would you be kind enough to expand on that topic of keeping slugs away with copper? cheers
@@hugoacpin Sure. Molluscs (slugs) use a copper-based carrier known as haemocyanin to carry oxygen around their body. When the slugs touch the copper they can receive a mild shock. The copper ions interfere with the mucus that slugs produce, causing a disruption in their movement and bodily functions. This is uncomfortable for the slug, therefore they tend to avoid copper tape/netting.
It’s a trick deployed by many gardeners and there’s quite a few TH-cam videos covering the subject. Personally, I don’t think it’s 100% full proof as I have still observed a slug make it past the copper barrier and onto the plant. However, it still vastly reduced the destruction of my plans from the previous year without any protection. Hope this helps!
@@shortymcsteve Very cool to know this, I will remember it when I take over the garden next year. Thanks!
@ You’re welcome! Good luck.
This is awesome, and such a simple way to help reuse aluminum. Thanks for contributing such an ingenious invention to the environment, to hobbyists, and cheapskates (I'm both for sure 😂) Bravo! 👏🌎
I've built an outdoor survival structure with them as the shingles on the roof like you have already shown!!!!
It started ☔ raining🌧️ and there were no leaks!!!!
I then decided to side the outer walls with them and it made a little difference in blocking out the outside temperature 🌡️🤒!!!!
Later after thinking about it I drove my off roader out with a media blaster and removed all the ugly colors and then shot it with camouflage and then an outer coat of thick polyurethane over the entire outside!!!!
It's now been there for 15 years and still doesn't have any leaks in the roof and can easily be heated up with the wood burning stove I built for it deep in the ground and ran pipe all around the inside of the little structure and outside back to the fire 🔥 and it heats up the water 💧💦 inside the pipes in turn heating the entire inside without creating carbon monoxide within the little place!!!!
We gave it to a guy we found on our property that was trying to live in a tent 🎪!!!!!
So now his leaky tent ⛺ became a fairly decent porch covering but we've been collecting cans ever since so now he's building a solid porch roof!!!
Everyone please 🙏🥺 try your best to be safe and healthy and take care of yourself and your loved ones!!!!
And hopefully have a fantastic Christmas ☃️🎄!!!!
And Howdy Howdy from Deadhorse Alaska, Alvin Texas and Aroostook county Maine!!!!
🐻🤠🚁🛩️🚜🚛⛴️🚤🛳️🚢🛶✈️🛫🛬!!!!!
i will make some aluminum-copper oxide batteries with them. Thanks for the cutter design!
Are cans made of pure aluminum?
@Atylonisus no, they have some magnesium and silicon in them but it doesn't matter so much for this use i think
This is great! Maybe now I’ll finally do something with that pile of pretty empties that I have in a closet, lol. I experimented with making things with the metal before, but was really put off by the trimming process. They are so sharp and hard to cut smoothly when round. Thanks 🥰 also with the housing crisis, we have it was exciting to see that roof was tiled in these?!
Nice tool!
I was able to cut the bottoms off of cans for a re-use project, by screwing a scrap of 1/2” ply on my workbench, then screwing a utility knife blade down to the scrap, with just a bit of the tip sticking off the edge of the ply. Worked great and allowed me to slip cans into each other with the tops providing a pass through for connective flow, in vertical tubes for a solar air heater project.
I found screwing down a strip of ply at 90 degrees to the “cutter block” in the right location helped center the can against the contact point of the blade, made it easy to keep light presssure on the opposite side to score/cut without denting.
This is what TH-cam is for, great video!
Fun fact: the lids and tabs are made from a different alloy of aluminum.
By simply removing the top in this way, you get the ductile alloy used for the can body without any contamination from the lids and tabs. Recycling from this point would nearly eliminate the processing cost to recycle into another can body while recycling the lid sections separately would reduce production costs significantly, only adding a small amount of alloying metals to compensate for the small amount of body material left behind from the cut
@@RandyCampbell-fk3pf That sounds like way too much work. I just throw the cans in the garbage because I know that there’s more where they came from. 🍻
@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes Once you've already done the work to get the aluminum sheets though, the bottoms and tops can be easily separated and stacked for different purposes. The lids (and tabs) are a stronger alloy than the bottoms if you decide to melt them down later.
Great point! I’ve never thought of that 🤔
Id buy one of these. I can absolutely think of every day uses for nice aluminum sheet patches.
I hope by this time next year, you have a 100k subscribers you upcycling maniac!
Nice sharing!! So happy to watch a local designer share his amazing idea!!!! 加油🔥
多謝支持❤️
Amazing Kevin!! Really nice improvement. Congrats and keep creating this cool things
Just be aware that cans usually have a super thin liner of epoxy or polymer inside them that you cant even see. If you put them near flames or try to laser cut them you will start burning it. "Aluminum can, minus the aluminum!" Is a good video to watch about it.
indeed that liner is super thin that most of the time people don’t notice it.
@@Roobotics How It's Made has an episode that you can find on YT where one of the steps is to spray the inside with a varnish.
@@eugsmiley A good suggestion! H.I.M. is totally my jam, I'm glad more of their stuff has ended up here. Apparently there is varnish on the outside as well protecting the ink, and the inside is a water based varnish.. now I wonder how the soda isn't dissolving that.. maybe why very old sodas aren't a great idea to drink.. and why some can even rust through he can..
Thanks for that tip, I was thinking of laser cutting them! Ha ha. Mmm. 😅
Smart idea!
I’d love to see more projects you’ve made with these/what your full workflow looks like for a project making something with them!
Ooooh this is perfect for shielding in audio projects. I was looking for ways to get shielding into plastic enclosures on the budget and this seems perfect. My other vote was iron mosquito net
Brilliant. I made a roof out of 2 liter bottles, but found that gathering them was tedious. It took so many more than I could have ever imagined. I still up-cycle as much as possible, there is so much free and cool stuff just laying around, waiting to go to the land fill.
Glass bottles?
@@u2bear377 plastic....
I keep thinking about your aluminum can roof ever since I saw the Project Kamp video when it first came out. You've definitely earned my subscription, and I’m excited to see more creative uses for those tiny aluminum sheets.
Glad you enjoyed the Project Kamp video! All the feedbacks gave me a lot of inspiration too😉It's great to see people interested in creating cool stuff with aluminum cans❤️
@kevincheung2951 I'm glad the TH-cam algorithm connected me to your channel. I had to go back and double check if you were you.
Great video - I just shared it on Facebook with 3-D printing enthusiasts and metal guys who build scale models. Thank you.
You are incredibly talented and clever. Thank you for sharing.
I gotta try this. I usually crush them up for sand casting, but this looks cool too. I can still melt the end bits.
ingenious device. Great way to create small, flat aluminum sheets from cans.
Scissors work fine if you know how to cut with them & have a good pair of metal sheers. What you made is just a basic pipe cutter with standard pipe cutting blades. Only difference with your pipe/can cutter is you turn the object you're cutting instead of turning the cutting tool itself.
This is great!!! We drink allot of sodas and recycle our cans but now I’d like to up cycle them into art now that you showed an easy way to utilthrm. Awesome job!!!
good job Kevin!! really really useful!
This makes for a great 3D printing project. But your Precious Plastics production quality piece looks absolutely brilliant!
Those qould be great roof tiles on bird houses & feeders.
I was thinking about something like this for making alcohol stoves out of aluminum cans. You beat me to it. Great job!
Spring loaded on sliding channels to be adjustable for different size cans
I have 3d printed many can cutters, tried extensively to research cutters, and have even tried to make scrappy ones by hand. I have found no solutions up until now that have pleased me because they almost always require sharp knives/blades that just coat everything in an aluminum powder (and I can NEVER figure out how to adjust them correctly). Suddenly this video pops up in my feed a long time after giving up, and this is EXACTLY what I had been dreaming of. Many of the cutters/solutions that I have seen have either required jostling knives around or even having the blade cut through the wall of the can. This technique which gets mostly though the can but not 100% has worked decently well for me because once a line is established, you can just tear the can down the crease. I am happy to see a design that seems to work just as advertised. Will there be a video with instructions for which parts to buy and how to best sharpen the spacer?
Me, German: no way I'll be cutting up cans, there's a 25 cent deposit on every single one
@@Kuchenwurst damn it’s only .50 per pound here in Montana.
0,1 euro in Sweden. That's a good price for a roof tile mate
You, German: already already pay the 25 cent upfront when buying the can in the 1st place
I just get a nickel for a can. I would still recycle.
Including the 25c I can get a 0,5l monster energy for 1€ here in Germany. How much are Americans paying?
*in my 60's goldsmith/master jeweler, photovoltaic/solar thermal technician, other trades too This Is What 3D Printers Are For. love your prototypes. this is where all my trades and experience goes out the window my Jaw dropped in admiration. i remember that video of you in south america making that roof with aluminum cans*
*slaps subscribe button* 👍
Great upcycling tool. Very creative. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Kevin. Excited to try this.
Just ordered for the second batch. Good on you making something useful.
I really think that this is just what I need to make a few projects that require aluminum cans as the medium.
I'm going to print your model and give it a try.
Thank you.
Let me know how it goes! 💪
im also a maker based in Hong Kong! cant wait to try your can slicer!
You are quite the patient genius. Well done.
Brilliant Idea. Well done.
I love your work and glad you're in our world. Please keep this up. I'm addicted to upcycling
I wanted this since precious plastics. Love the mold.
im more into melting down cans myself, but this invention is very very cool. thank you for providing the print profile. i'll print one of these up and give it a go!
Really well done.. i always thought these could be used for roofing. A cheap alternative to roofing tiles.
That's a good idea.
Absolutely, it's been done and works well if you are careful with the installation. Can search "aluminum can roof shingles"
Wonderfully inventive idea! Thanks.
You could sort the cans by diameter before, then do each size in groups. You could have multiple tools set to different diameters too.
Yep sorting the can is a must actually most of the cans are the 66mm one
I used to break down cans all the time in highschool to make jewelry. I wish I had this tool. Would have made the process a lot easier and safer.
Great invention and very clear & informative video - you deserve to do well.
This is exactly what i need for an art project that randomly popped back up in my head this very day. The algorithm read my damn mind
run the curled aluminum through 3 offset rollers to 'un-curl' the can body to automate and standardize the output repeatably and standardized flat sheets.
Thank you! I'm so glad this popped up on my feed. I'm a beer enthusiast and this is a great way to preserve can art. Pre-order placed!
Thanks for the support! I'm glad you like it 😊
i have been carrying it during my travels, bringing back cans from alll around 🌎!
Make a spring loaded model, no screw adjustments, just squeeze.
I would definitely buy a spring loaded model if it was under $50usd.
awesome - the marble effect is very nice too
Very Nice! Thank You for Sharing! All the Best from Brasil!
I was actually planning on building something like this, thank you. TH-cam recommendations are on it.
yes, finally. I tried your previous video's method and was sorely disappointed. this will make things much easier.
Also, I 3d printed an expanding collet/mandrel to handle the can deforming as soon as you pop one end off. so you can pop an end off completely, shove the mandrel in there, and then easily handle the other end.
That was the exact thought I just had a few seconds ago.
It's really cool to stumble across a local channel with original ideas and contents.
Your vids are definitely a fresh breeze of air in our city. Ga Yau!
Very cool and an extremely clever way to recycle cans into something useful!
NO WAY. that is so cool man!
Now all you need to do is come out with a line of desktop sheet metal tools. Little sheer, press-break, maybe a small press with or a rivet tool or maybe even a spot welder made from one of those amazon battery spot welder kits.
Very god job young man. Keep it up and never stop thinking and up cycling. Much to my wife dislike I have saved sheets of cardboard cereal boxes and scrap metal and use it to make templates and other things.
Get intouch with Project Kamp they did a whole roof out of cans and love recycled HDPE!
yes i have heard of that, seem quite decent job they have done and a lot of drinking ~
Very cool idea! Similar in concept to a tubing cutter or pipe cutter, identical cutting process. I like your implementation because it sits flat on the table; you could easily modify it to screw it down if you plan on cutting cans in large volumes.
The would make for a great shingle roof or sliding for a house.
My uncle used tin cans from fruit or vegetables and roofed his house.
Too thin
@@REVNUMANEWBERN tin cans from vegetables work great though. Uncle Aubrey's roof needed to be maintained but the flattened cans worked quite well. With 11 kids they didn't have much money but they did go through the cans.
I saw the episode on Project Kamp where you made the roof tiles with cans. It was amazing--the utility and the final look were top notch.
thank you and glad you found me here :)
Take a sander to remove paint and internal P E lining.
Next stack two or more rectangular sheets together and spot weld them.
Simple chassis for DIY projects could be made.
My lithium battery spot welder has two capacitors with the size of a can of coke each. It should make a weld.
I’ve been trying to come up with an easier way for a while now and your design is perfect! Thank you for sharing!
Nice work, Kevin.