There is nothing wrong with the aluminum can crusher, the problem is the basket that is to hold the cans. The basket is very hard to assemble. The plastic is very brittle and hard to insert the assembly tabs into the corresponding holes.

Very frail. When loaded with 10 cans, they often flip and jam and pop out of the crusher. Plus it only crushes 12oz cans. I ended up loading each can one at a time and then crushing them. A nice idea, but I'm scrapping this one and buying another can crusher.

The crusher works as advertised. You must secure the crusher to a beafy wall or 2 x 4. I don't think sheet rock would hold it. The cans are loaded, and as each is crushed, it falls thru the slot and the next can drops into the crushing area.

Good buy and it the crushed cans take up much less room.

Northern Industrial Tools Automatic Feed Can Crusher
This product is poorly designed and therefore it continualy jams until it breaks. There are far better can crushers on the market. Save your money.

This is about the most poorly engineered thing I've ever seen, all the people that gave it 5 stars obviously got something different than what I received, it flat out doesn't work. I read the instructions several times to make sure that I didn't leave anything out. The fact that you have to "assemble" such a product cant be good.