DIY Nut Cracker MACHINE walnuts pecans brazil nuts etc

I have hundreds of walnuts now we're all clean and husk but now I need to crack them so I'm going to build an electric Nutcracker and I thought I'd bring you guys along so a lot of this isn't going to make sense in still until I start getting it assembled but I got all the side pieces cut out but essentially there is a box this do hear the walnuts get dropped down and they get crack fall out the bottom shells fall off you pull out the the meat and you're good so these are all cut now what I have in here is a rotor the Smasher the the blood the the heart of the machine and this is just a piece of black gas pipe that I've ground down the outside is not black anymore and the shaft that runs through the whole thing then it's actually a drill is going to turn it is going to be this 5/16 raw not this exact one but the same size and so to get it to the same size as that these nuts fit really tight over there so and they fit really tight I have to hammer them in into this pipe so this will Center this shaft into here and I'll hammer them all the way in and I'll weld Amman and then this rod actually gets welded to the whole thing ok and now this turns and there's only so much clearance against the wall and as it turns this is forced between and cracked now this is too smooth so what I'm going to do is take this small quarter-inch pencil steel and that's going to get welded with gaps all the way around you can see I'm just welding these around get you in there so weld one I'll grind it out just a little bit and then I'll just weld another one and I'm almost done okay my side panels have holes drilled in them and I have a bolt in there but you notice today I ground off one side of the bolt let me take that out real fast you can see it just one side is flattened and now you'll see in one second why this side and this is the other matching side right here and you got your front and your back and so that those the bolt head will weld to this so I can take it apart and they'll be the bolt sticking out here and sticking out here they're all tack weld in place and now we have a square box so here's a router I i weld it in a rod in the middle like I said I would and now to support it on each side I'm going to do bearings and what I'm using is actually roller blade or to go skateboard bearings pretty sure the exact same size but what I'm going to do originally I was just going to leave them out you know they come out leave them out of there they're wheel but I decided if they're in their wheel this is actually a really hard rubber almost like a polyurethane and that will help cushion anything so I'm going to leave both bearings in there and I'm actually cutting them square they cut pretty easily then I'm going to mount them in this square tube like a press fit into that square tube on each side so it'll take away any vibration or anything from hitting the nuts you know so did you and just a wood saw and it all it will cut so I hammered the wheel into a piece of square tubing it's tight it's snug not overly tight customer relief notches on the back so I can pry it out if I need to check the bearings service the bearings so I got this roughly assembled the shaft in the middle so I'll just set this in place and I'll just tack weld these right where they need to be okay this is the front so this is the inside and the nuts fall down here but to make it adjustable for different size nuts we need to have a plate in there so I'll put this plate in here and I'll hinge the top and then I'll make soda just in and out so the further out it comes the actually the closer to this it gets lessening the gap and vice versa back and forth but that's the idea so this quarter-inch plate just sits on the inside and it's just shy of the top and I'll make a hinge and to make a hinge all I'm using is a couple pieces of tube there's steel tube and a nail and I will just set that along the top and I'll just weld this one to these and this one to that and then we will have the hinge there we go it is now hinged and you can remove the nail panic and come apart I got to make it bolt drill through here to help push it out and another bolt up here to help hold it in because I want to push it out but I don't want it to sit there and just rattle so a bolt that actually holds a snag in one that forces it out so now you can see it this will push it in but to keep it from just rattling back and forth this one just adds tension to it and you can adjust the thickness in between there you know almost indefinitely almost all the way out to I mean you could make it so you could adjust it all the way so there's no clearance but changes the clearance in there I've welded handles a piece of pipe in a little handle onto the nuts but also now welded the buck amounts which is just piece of angle steel with not just cut out of it backside just piece angle steel and to keep it from sliding backwards there is a little tab little nub but that gives you an idea what that is you make a little hopper for the top so I got a bunch of triangle pieces cut out and I'll just world those together and it's just sheet metal I'll just weld it together so that it makes a hopper hopper is all assembled and then it mounts just to one of the one of the sides via bolt nice and sloppy a bit so you can remove it if you want now I'm going to run some round bar across the top and tack it in just to give it a nice finished edge okay it's all painted time for final assembly besides the inside is painted but it's really thin so it's going to get scratched off but that's okay and just some nuts go on I'll go step down that's just the hopper and that just comes in and one bolt holds it at the back now you're asking yourself let's see this thing work okay because I did it dual shafts you can run it from either side and just have it just sitting on the bucket I have it adjusted the tolerance in there so let's just use a cordless drill put on there and let's feed on there we go took a little under five minutes to do this entire five gallon bucket full so now all you need to do is a pick them apart and pull off a little papers and stuff and there's a there's a whole one you know some of them be halves and so will be quarters depending on how I'm nice here I'm getting these things out but thanks for watching great day I'll leave a comment below rate and subscribe and as far as plans I'm gonna have plans drafted up for the this this contraption and I'll have those available for sale for a nominal fee but there you go hopefully you guys enjoyed it see you soon 65 Ford bye

Channel: sixtyfiveford

Views: 460,473

Keywords: Pecan (Organism Classification), Walnut (Organism Classification), Nut (Breakfast Cereal Flavor), Nutcracker (Culinary Tool), Brazil Nut (Organism Classification), Pistachio (Organism Classification), Almond (Organism Classification), Do It Yourself (Website Category), HomeMADE (TV Program), Welder (Occupation), Metalworking (Visual Art Form), Machine (Ontology Instance), Nut (Food), Walnut (Food), Pecan (Food), Brazil Nut (Food)

Id: u0TK9qLcNf0

Length: 11min 23sec (683 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 16 2014