Prep Solutions by Progressive Big Green Recycling Machine

Love it. Kids love it. You can tell handle is a little on the flimsy side but just got to be gentle at times.Does smash the 25 oz beer cans as well.

Very disappointed with this. Worked well out of the box, went on the wall easy enough but after 2 weeks or so of use, the handle snapped off of one of the levers. I came to find out that it's held in there by a very flimsy pressure joint and seemingly nothing else. Whatever, I thought, not a huge deal, replaced it in a few minutes with a wooden dowel. I noticed as I finished my repair though that the center "bow" joint you see there that connects the handle to the arm that pulls the top down had begun to bow significantly at the riveted point. Mind you we don't drink a ton of sodas and such so this thing wasn't getting THAT much use, maybe 5-10 cans a week, and I'm not exactly a muscular guy.The design is fine but the manufacturer is cheaping out HARD on the materials. Do not buy this.

Ok, so right off the bat it seems a little flimsy as everyone else says. You need 4 screws to mount it to a wall/something stable as it didn’t come with this. Now the common sense/tips part...once you get it, wd-40 it when you mount it and keep it handy. Also in a simple trial, it’s harder to crush a can that’s not dented. All I do is squeeze just a little bit of can to release that pressure, than crush with this. Works flawless after common sense

Bought this about a month ago and the the handle came off.

It works. Feels a bit wobbly at the joints but the body is sturdy.

This thing crushes cans with little effort. Unfortunately, the handle is not secured to the lever armature very well and came free within a week of installation, making the two lever arms independent of each other. I've been thinking of how to fix this, either with some JB weld, or replacing the handle altogether with a piece of dowel and screwing it into the lever armatures.

first of all, the design is terrible! It ALMOST crushes cans about half way, reducing my bin of 12 ounce cans by 50% and no more. Other can crushers reduce their volume down to 30%, so that they take up allot less space. Next, after about 40 normal 12 ounce cans crushed, the arms are bending out of shape, the rivets that hold the entire thing together are getting looser, and best of all - about 20% of cans fly out in your face with enough force to land 12 feet away. All this after only crushing 40 of them! Update: 20 more cans crushed and now the handle has broken off as well!

It's an easy install, It crushes the cans and bottles very easy but it's a bit noisy and drives my dogs crazy when we crush anything. It's a cheap way to crush cans manually. It does the advertised job.