Crushing aluminum cans is quick and easy for Mike Steele, South Elgin, Ill., who made a heavyduty, handoperated out of treated scrap wood. "I just push down on a hinged handle to crush the can against a diamond steel plate. The compressed can falls through a slot at the back of a trough and down into a bucket," says Steele.
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