DIY Food Can Dispenser - with plans
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- čas přidán 28. 03. 2020
- In this video I build a DIY hanging food can dispenser, which holds 42 cans of food and rotates them in a first-in-first out (fifo) method, so you eat the oldest cans first. This was a necessary project, since there are a lot of cans of food to store in my house. It helped a lot with organizing my pantry, and it is pretty fun to use.
You can purchase plans for the project here:
www.bobswoodstuff.com/downloa...
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This looks easy enough to build and keeps food rotated. I can't wait to try it!
One of the best DIY videos I have ever seen. Excellent!
Thanks!
Great design, I like the fact that you can se what the cans are of a lot easier than on a flat shelf or in the conventional u-shaped can rotator system.
Thanks! I put a lot of thought into it.
This is the second video I have seen on making a can rack like this, it's interesting seeing the different ways the same thing can be made. Thank you for the video, really enjoyed it.
You're welcome.
Now THAT is cool! I'm going to build one. Thank you!
Good video and useful tips. I used your plans but changed the dimensions to suit my needs. The cardboard spacers was inspired! Great idea. Instead of drilling holes to attach the dividers to the plywood, I used my studfinder and secured them that way. Great job, thanks.
Brilliant! I didn't think to use the stud finder.
I am going to use much of what you have shown here. The only thing different for me is I will use a chalk line on the back to screw in the vertical dividers.
That was exactly what I needed to watch to get started. Thank you
You're welcome!
Great job mister. Square head screws are commonly called Robertson heads if you are interested.
Thanks for the tip!
Great ideas to use for my roll out can rack project. Thanks for fast forwarding to make it watchable!
You're welcome! I try to keep a good pace on the videos.
New subscriber, just what the Pantry Doctor ordered! Showing husband this as we're getting ready to move to Pahrump NV from Henderson NV, husband wanted wide open spaces ( 1.1 acre) and 1700 ft home just right for the both of us- finally enough kitchen space to do this and my Canning, Prepping & Freezer meals, enough of a yard to plant in my raised Planter beds cause Nevada homes are notorious for having a strip of sidewalk for a backyard - great job!
Thanks! Congrats on the new property!
Fantastic work! I've been wanting to make something like this for a while. Thanks for the inspiration.
You are welcome! It is a fun build.
It's best and most necessary thing in this period , which can be stored so many cans. The plan is useful and thanks for the creative, ingenious and useful item.
You are welcome!
@@BobsWoodStuff Thanks for your reply. I subscribed your channel because your video is fun and interesting. Please have chance to see and subscribe my youtube channel. See you later.
Thank you for offering the plans as well!
You're welcome!
Super handy project!! Enjoyed the intro sounding like an info-mercial 😂
Excellent idea, only thing I would have done differently was to measure where the partitions are then transfer to the back. Still a great idea.
Great for people with little room. I had one like that in my home fifty years ago. Now for today I keep more food on a steel roll around shelving unit. It holds several hundred cans per shelf and has five shelves, so maybe 800 or more cans. Plus you can roll them around for cleaning. I put cans in from the back side and use them from the front.
Do you mean liike one of those very sturdy, multi-tiered, rolling metal shelves from the U Line company?
@@michelleduncan9965 I don't know who makes them but you can buy them for under $100 and they are available in multiple sizes and they are available all over. Try northern tool, sams club and many other places.
Love this..thank you for sharing we love ur channel
Enjoyed!!
Thanks for watching!
Nice work !
This was OUTSTANDING. We have no pantry in our kitchen, but we may try to do this in our garage as it's just a few steps away from our kitchen. Or, maybe on a wall in sunroom that adjoins the kitchen. A very light weight decorative fabric cover could go over the front to cover the cans if it were put in a sunroom or garage. Thanks for this excellent video. You made it look so easy.
You're welcome!
@ Michelle Duncan: Just be cautious of the sunroom. If the sunroom is north or west facing, how hot is it going to get in summer? The summer heat may do damage to the food inside the cans. Direct sunlight is one issue, but the ambient heat is a secondary issue that is harder to mitigate.
Awesome job. A must make for my pantry...thanks for sharing
You're welcome!
Very clever! Thanks so much!!!
You're welcome!
Very nice.
Excellent 😊
Your awesome! Great video and nice work. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome! Thanks for the nice comments!
This is Really Nice!, i was just in need of a Can/Soda Dispenser, instead of going to Amazon, i hit youtube , and Wo...this is really Fantastic, my 5 year old child , mentions he "enjoyed" specially the beginning - Your 'expression' of soda can floating down the wall. Thanks for sharing this. Every detail was thought off!
Glad you like it!
This is such a great pattern and video. I have no place to hang because i have a mobile , so will set on floor.......will have to adapt bottom for my needs. Thank you so much. 👍
You're welcome. I'm glad you like the plans.
Thanks
Plans for this project can be purchased here:
www.bobswoodstuff.com/downloads/diy-food-can-dispenser-plans/
Other DIY and Woodworking plans:
www.bobswoodstuff.com/premium-woodworking-plans/
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Great job man..
Thanks!
This would be awesome if it came in a ready to just assemble kit for single moms like me who don't have one of those cool saws you can adjust to a 30 degree angle
That is a great idea!
It is a great use of space, but, what worries me is shrinkflation! That is when the cans suddenly shrink. How do you counter that problem???
I haven't experienced that, but if the cans suddenly got a little smaller, it would still work fine.
@@BobsWoodStuff: I failed to mention, but, to give an example: Heinz spaghetti in sauce has gone from 400 grams to 300 grams. Now, they have released a 515 gram can. So, if you have made your racking for the 400 / 300 gram cans, and they then come out with a 515 gram can... that is what worries me!!!
@@111jacare I see. I've had that issue with some cans being slightly too large. I recommend building it for the largest cans you expect to hold, and it will still work for the smaller cans.
Too much woodworking and not enough juggling while playing DDR... But honestly good work. Wish I had the power tools to make it.
The minimum tools required would be a drill and a circular saw.
You can buy cheap versions of the tools on Amazon, better ones at Home Depot or Lowe’s. Everyone should have these to store food even for normal life.
Just use 1x4s? Or what for the dividers? That's my main concern. Plus I have to have 1 row that'll fit the larger cans of Rotel. So it adds extra CRAP to this fairly simple design. Think it'd work without the 45degree angles behind the bottom can?
For the dividers, the important thing is to make sure it is wide enough to fit the cans. So I would measure the diameter of the top of the largest can you want to hold, and make the dividers about 1/8" wider than that.
I'm building this - the bottom rail doesn't keep more than 1 can in. Any force on top of a single can pushes it out, and gravity does the rest. Any tips?
I would try making the bottom rail a little taller, or making the ramp in the back (the one that pushes it forward) a bit smaller.
I'm very surprised that you didn't make the little triangular supports the right size to actually fill the gaps. The way you've done it will over time become a dust trap that will be virtually impossible to clean. Otherwise great design. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks.
Yes, it would be better if the ramps filled the gaps. I made them small to make the plans easier to follow.
Great job. What size wood was used for your dividers and border?
Thanks! I used 3/4" plywood (11/16" actual
thickness).
All those cans must weigh a lot. Did the 3/4” plywood hold up the the weight?
Yes, it has stood up for years with no problems. The washer-head cabinet screws are important while mounting, to spread the weight and really clamp it to the studs.
neat-o
Thanks!
Two years later, is there anything you would alter?
I would add a little more space on each end of the cans (make each column slightly wider). After painting it the fit of the cans was a little tighter than I liked.
And I would sample more cans and use the widest to set the height of the spacers. Some cans are a tiny bit larger than others.
When you mix cans on one row you have to take out the cans to get to the one you need.
Yes, it is best to designate one column for each commonly used item.
Would I be able to attach this to a door? Or would it be to heavy?
I think it would be too heavy, unless you had some extra beefy hinges and put long screws all the way into the studs.
He should never cross his arms when using the miter saw. Very dangerous.
That's a good tip, thanks!
Looks great, how is it holding up after all this time?
It is holding up well. Some of the paint has smudged though. And I don't recommend dropping the cans all the way from the top if it is empty, better to guide them down.
@@BobsWoodStuff I feel like there is a good story about someone having to clean up a can's worth of soup from the floor 🤣
@@TheGrantAlexander No, just some real loud noises. Since it is mounted to the studs, it sounds like an earthquake if they get dropped really far.
@@BobsWoodStuff well that isn't as exciting as I envisioned 🤣
Can this be done with pallets?
I don't see why not.
Oh yeah I saw this on Anna Whites you tube about 6 months ago I like
AW's plan calls for plexiglass, pretty expensive here. For my purposes I prefer Bob's plan.
Yeah, I wanted to build one with the spare plywood I had, and didn't want to buy any acrylic.
Great idea, but just concerned about the lack of crown guard on the panel saw
I have never used a crown guard on the table saw. That is the way I learned, and I believe it is very safe when done properly with the right kind of push stick.
But I do recommend people use whatever method makes them feel safest.
Why not use french cleats?
French cleats would definitely work well for this. In my pantry, space is at a premium so I didn't want the extra half inch or so that it would stand off the wall.
Did I miss your divider width rips?
That was at 1:00
@@BobsWoodStuff hmm, looked at the 1:00 mark, did not hear the width rip.
@@celticman138 To get the width of those pieces, you can measure the diameter of your can and add 1/4". That will ensure that your cans fit right.
Not all cans or these dimensions
Your pantry or yours and your wife's? We and our are good words.
Okay Karen
At the time I made this, it was just my pantry.
Interlectually dishonest in that rearly dose someone cut a piece of ply and have if fit exactly 6 cans or what have you across the wideth of it. You either fluked it or did some math which you did not show in order to get this right.
I did some math by measuring the height of the cans and the thickness of the dividing walls.
It was not just a random size that I cut the back piece to that happened to be the right size.