Easy Pull Auto Dispensing No Mess Can Crusher
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Easy Pull Auto Dispensing No Mess Can Crusher
Customer Review: Good Can Crusher
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using this can crusher for about 3 months now. Being plastic made me a bit leary on its quality, but it is holding up very well. I don't use the optional can catching device. But I make sure that all the cans have been rinsed clean and dried since cockroaches and other nasties like the dried soda surup and I don't want to entice them into my house. I wish it would crush cans thinner as I could do with my old metal unit. I thought this would be a problem with the tilting action of the unit, but when I crush the cans, I catch each one in my hand and set it aside. Since they have been pre-cleaned and dried, my hands stay clean. Next I take 3 cans and put them back into the crusher stacked one on top of another and crush again. Then I let them fall into the container I keep under the unit. This process crushes them much thinner and allows you to put more cans in a bag, so less bag storage space, fewer bags but also heaver so more money per bag from the recyling center. I have tried with 4 or 5 pre-crushed cans trying to smash them thinner but this puts more strain on the crusher and 3 pre-crushed cans seem about the same height as a one uncrushed can and doesn't strain the crusher any more than normal crushing. So as far as I am concerned this is a very good unit and is manufactured quite well. As long as it is mounted into a stud at a comfortable height it does the crushing very effectively. I am well pleased with the unit and recommend it highly.Customer Review: Service "like the old days"
Summary: 5 Stars
Well I, like others who have offered comments, bought this unit based on customer reviews. I almost never review items online but this one is out of the ordinary and deserves a kudo. The unit is the most well designed and constructed I have used in 30 years. I confess I did not follow the instructions to the letter and mounted it on an outside wall. Now the directions say explicitly NOT to mount out doors or in a garage, but I knew better. Well, maybe not...
Eventually my unit started to bind up and the guide rods for the lever actually bent. I contacted the company asking if they could sell me new guide rods. I didn't hold out much hope and figured I would just have to buy a new unit. Lo and behold, I got a speedy reply to my email. And then a followup call from a representative. And even a second followup call when I was unavailable. They went out of their way to understand my problem, rather than send me off to support purgatory.
The bottom line is that I eventually did speak with the rep and he explained the likely problem of moisture contamination due to the unit being mounted outside. Then he lowered the boom on me! He offered to replace the entire device if I would mail back my original unit.
AMAZING is all I can say. These folks stand behind their product. Period. I give them a triple-A, 5-star rating for service. And a 5-star rating for the product itself!!
Customer Review: Easy Pull Can Crusher
Summary: 4 Stars
Installed this product in the kitchen of a fraternity house. Crushes at least 100-150 cans every week (and a few times that for a big party). It seems built to last, and the action of pulling is easy enough on the arms that you can go through every can with no fatigue. The can drops right into either an add-on receptacle (which looks like a waste of money) or a trash can below. Also low maintenance, as the lube on the rods has not worn off (they suggest lubing them once a year, if I remember correctly).
We now pull the tabs off to collect for charity, and we will probably have a few thousand by the end of the year, so that's an added benefit (before, we didn't have any one place to put cans so trying to get all or most tabs was impossible).
Complaints: the cans get crushed to a height of about 1.5 inches - it stops and you can't go any farther. There's probably a good reason (maybe to reduce fatigue on the crusher or for recycling purposes), but it would be nice to fit more into a trash can. And more fun... It lacks that crunch that makes stomping cans fun in the first place.
Also, you have to insert the cans one at a time, vertically. Some competing products let you just drop them into a hopper-type of thing. This product makes crushing cans a two-person job, if you want it to get done quickly. I hope this review is helpful.
Customer Review: Easy Pull Can Crusher, it's great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using Easy Pull for about 2 years now and it has proven to be a great "creature comfort" appliance for my home. As Grandparents my wife and I are constantly entertaining grandchildren for weekend and week long visits and the kids drink their share of soda along with my occasional beer. The Easy pull makes it easy for the kids and all others to dispose easily of the accumulation of the "dead cans" that would otherwise pile up, quickly filling the largest of trash bags. The collection bin (optional) is well worth the few extra dollars. No more hand picking cans with sharp edges that used to accumulate in the old metal crushers that wouldn't eject properly. The collection bin can be easily used or just put a larger plastic bin on the floor with a trash bag liner (I prefer the optional collection bin, it is easy to use.)
Follow the included instructions for mounting and maintenance and expect it to last forever. Some reviewers have suggested it is made of plastic. Not so. It is manufactured from a heavy duty reinforced Nylon that can handle a lot of abuse. No more ugly rusty metal rusted crushers that are impossible to clean. It also makes a great gift. I have purchased and given the Easy Pull to other family members and the love it.
D. Ash
Retired U.S. Army
Current Quartermaster, VFW
Customer Review: Smoohing for moolah
Summary: 5 Stars
My boyfriend drinks an abnormal amount of soda. He does not drink water. The man drinks a Pepsi with pancakes. I got sick of having to take the trash out constantly due to the high volume of empty cans in the trash.
Hawaii started the 5 cent redemption a couple of years ago, but I never bothered with it because they didn't allow crushing of cans, and since I live in a condo, keeping bags of cans around was not a possibility. Recently they allowed crushing, so I needed a crusher to save me some $$ and to save my sanity with having a full trash can.
This one works excellently.
I ordered it and it only came with the crushing arm. They advertised in the description that it came with the collection bin. I emailed the company and let them know that they needed to either send me the bin or change their description to avoid further problems. They immediately sent me a collection bin. Excellent customer service.
I do see that they are selling the collection bin separately, but they still describe it as coming with it in the description. So there still seems to be some confusion.
It smooshes cans with ease.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SCREW IT INTO A STUD. The pressure will pull it out of the wall almost instantly. You must find a stud and install it that way.