Thanks for your comments. Good luck with your build.

I've built quite a few things with washing machine motors. They're handy. Due to lower power, you'll have to keep it relatively light duty. I have a 7.5 hp 3 phase motor running this crusher now, and it still bogs down a little if I load it with enough cullet.

@@ArnoldsDesign thank you for the information. I think I insert one bottle at a time. I am also looking into designing a plastic shredder with those same qualifications.

Good idea. I did come up with a crude solution to control the dust a while back. I have a plywood bucket cover with two holes in it. One I connect to the crusher, and the other I connect to a cyclone and then a shop vac. It works well.

How about a wet towel?

Glass is pretty easy to crush, but getting the right mesh size can be tricky. You have to run it through a screener to separate out the sizes you want. It doesn't need to be a gyratory screener like mine, but some sort of vibrating screen will work.

I just saw your comment. Yes, those are good ideas. This was my first prototype crusher. I'd like to use an air blade to separate labels from glass. I have a gyratory screener that separates grades into differing buckets.

Thanks for your thoughts. I actually used that idea I while back and it worked well. I didn't have the clear plastic sight glass you spoke of, so I had to keep checking the level. I have since made this crusher much lower to the ground, so that the discharge chute feeds directly into a bucket or conveyor. The chute now enters through the wall of an enclosed housing where a bucket or conveyor is placed. Attached to the housing wall is a little cyclone dust collector which gets much of the dust from inside the housing.

Thanks. The only way to control glass size is to vary the speed of the motor. I don't worry too much about that, though, because I run the glass through a screener after it is crushed. Any oversize cullet gets rejected and sent back to the crusher. This is my secondary crusher now. I built a primary crusher which turns bottles into coarse cullet much faster than this one.

Very excellent work

After crashed glass powder is which purpose using....

Hahaha

Yes. I now have a vfd to an electric motor and vary the speed depending on size I need.

I always wondered how they made those suits shine. I didn't know full body coverage was required. That is good information to know. I use a respirator now, but why full body?

I know of a guy who uses coarse crushed glass for concrete counter tops. It looks pretty good, actually. Regarding soaking, I could try that, but then I have to empty the bottles dry them well before crushing. Even high humidity causes problems during screening. Paper removal is problematic in glass abrasive manufacturing. I know of one guy who runs the glass through a furnace to burn the paper off. A good idea, but uses a lot of energy. The technique I use doesn't get 100% of the paper, but very little makes it through.

lohphat was going to say the same thing

DO you have glass crusher>? My email:sales607@sinoftm.com

Thank you!

Some people use it for sand blasting (sanding) or you can use it for making new glass. You could use it for sand bags, or cement. Someone wondered if you could make clay with it, which sounds sick. When it’s fine enough it doesn’t cut anymore, so you could use it in the garden too. Maybe, /maybe/ sand boxes. Idk about that tho

I think I have a couple hundred in materials. I already had the engine. Right now I am working on finalizing a set of plans to sell so people can build these for themselves. I am making the plans to work with either a 5hp gas engine, or a 3hp electric motor.

Arnold's Design Thats awesome. Do you have plans for your grit filter? :)

At this time I don't. It's pretty complicated to build and set up properly. I would like to build a much simpler type first and then base plans from that. That is in the works.

I screen from 12 to -60. For blasting I produce 24-40, 40-60, and -60. -60 is mostly 60-120, but there is some finer product mixed in with that.

Thanks!

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@@ArnoldsDesign I'm not trying to be mean, it's just that I thought you got a machine like the New Zealand "DB Export" glass pulverizer, thats all.

+Frank Martinez Sorry for the late reply. I just saw your post. I do have my preliminary drawings for the crusher when I designed it, but don't have any formal plans at this time. The screener was just something that I sort of roughly designed in my head, and then refined the design as I built it.

I make abrasive for my blasting business.

+Tim Julian Thanks. Yes, you can take the glass to be recycled. I don't plan to build another crusher like this one, but I have a new design that creates very little dust that I plan to market at some point. It crushes coarser but faster, and can process up to 1 gallon jugs. They will probably be around $2k, solidly built and have an enclosure below the crusher to hold buckets. Much more compact than this one.

+Arnold's Design Please contact me Mr. Arnold I very interested in your machines the glass pulverizer crushing 50lbs or more and the gyratory screener $2000 is a great price for the machines please contact me at jacquelinemmays@yahoo.com your machines are exactly what I need thanks

The one in the vid's N99. I use a P100 dual cartridge now.

I have some rough drawings. I sort of design stuff in my head as I go along. Maybe some day.

How to make this machine & specifications drawings please share

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I don't sell specific colors, because I don't get enough of any one color to have enough, plus I'd have to sort by color. That being said, I do sort out all blue glass, because it's rare use, for later crushing.

Robert Palmore I've considered getting a regular hammer mill, and might look into that option again. Will they they mill glass to a fine powder? Mine scoops ok, and I have slowed the hammers down about 50%. You should have seen it when I was running it 100%. I want to produce and collect that dust, but not blow it into the next county. It is a very fine abrasive that I use all the time. If you watch my gyratory screener video, you will see that I sift down to -60 mesh, and sometimes higher. The mistake I made is that I made the hammer faces too wide, so they have about 1/2" clearance from either side of the enclosure. Although this makes it scoop well, it also basically turns it into a centrifugal fan which blows the dust. I am planning to make another set much narrower. Like anything, after you build something, you stand back and ask yourself, "Ok, now why didn't I do it this way or that way?" Happens to me with everything I build. I have an idea for a bar room crusher too, that would be virtually dustless for making course cullet.

Yes, a hammer mill will work fine with glass. You make this into a hammer mill rather easy. Put a radius screen in the bottom that is the mesh you want. Make the radius about 1/4" from the hammer. Yes, a large gap from the sides isn't good but not a huge deal. If you make another 1/4" should be good. The output would be under the screen. The target piece and output you have could be covered and make a radius all the way around with the small gap. Nothing wrong with what you have, just needs some refinements. Hammers to fit, radius all around, screen and discharge under the screen and your in business. Solid design. Hammer will last a lifetime. The thicker you make your screen the greater the longevity. Like use a 1/4/" steel plate, drill as many holes the size glass you want and it will last almost as as long as the hammers. Best of luck.

Robert Palmore Thanks, Robert. I will give that a try. I'm going to be working on it and my screener over the spring and summer.

Robert Palmore Since you posted this, I built another mill, which is a fixed hammer design. I am getting very little dust from it. Its main purpose is just to reduce the bottles into cullet, as you were saying. I'm running a grate on the bottom, too, to keep sizes under a half inch. I also fabricated a hopper for the one in this video, and run a cyclone dust collector on it now. I hope to be posting video of it's construction soon. It's going to be a long video, and will take me many hours to edit.

Arnold's Design Make a video of the upgrades, I'm interested in the performance.

I grade it in a screener, and then use it in abrasive blasting. The grades I don't use, I sell.

Thanks for the heads up. I wear a P100 respirator now. I hope it does what it's suppose to do.

Can i asked what type of material (blade) you used in crusher mill?

Yes, that is what I use it for.

I don't sell them

I don't build these to sell.

If you have any idea, where other machines available plz share OK naa?

@@dosticonstructions7392 You can try these guys. mbmmllc.com/ They build hammer mills for all material including glass. I've contacted them before, and the units are heavy duty.

I use it for abrasive. Best stuff I've ever used and doesn't contaminate surfaces.

Tare weight is when you re zero the scale so it doesn't include the container's weight. I don't know what frit is.

I know. I'm very careful with it.

Спасибо!

+Arnold's Design отлично) ты знаешь русский!) какая производительность в час? и какие затраты на бензин? спасибо!

Я должен использовать программ для перевода русского языка. Стекло дробилки около 1 тонны за час. Бензин около 1 литр в час.

I don't build them to sell. I will be selling plans though in the near future.

I'd be into buying the plans. Keep me posted when you do. Awesome machine.

Thanks. I will.

Arnold's Design I'd also like a plan... thanks!

Looks like I have some work to do.

علاء البياتي Thank you :)

I don't know a purchase price. I built it myself. I don't sell these machines.

Did you not read my last reply to you? This is not one of those useless hardware store paper masks. I am wearing an N100 sealed respirator. I have since switched to the cartridge type. An N100 respirator filters out 99.97% of dust down to .3 microns. And the dust cloud in this video was only for a few seconds. I now use a cyclone dust collector when crushing. There is also no free silica in glass. Free silica would only be made if I was crushing sandstone. And why are you talking to me in third person?

Kiss my ass. How's that for grammar?

Where is the video of the crusher you built so that I can learn how it's done?

home made or manufactured , if there is a visable plume, something is terribly wrong ...you dont see a plume from the crushers at walmart so ..common sense should be a sufficient that there is no argument here . it can be difficult to admit that what one has invested time and effort in is a mistake..its happened to me too many times