Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101
I'm Bob and today we're going to build a cigarette butt disposal unit; the cheap way.
Not going out and buying these high(ly) expensive disposal units for cigarettes.
We're going to build an economy unit here and I'm going to show you how.
So what you're going to need, you're going to need a six gallon pail,
a tin garbage can basically. This is a six
gallon pail, 23 liter.
I bought this at Lowes with a top on it.
You're going to need a sign, some tape, going to need a reamer
bit and a half inch drill bit, 50 pounds
of sand, and your battery drill.
I'm going to drill three holes in this top here.
Then I'm going to ream the hole because we really don't need a lot of room.
You should have gloves and some safety glasses on so you don't get hurt.
I'm just basically going to do three or four holes on the top here and then we're going to put the sand
into the bucket, tape the sign to the side, and we'll be all done.
For a whole fifteen dollars: done, finished.
Not fifty dollars, not 75 dollars, not one hundred fifty dollars for some of these custom units.
So if you want to save yourself some money, this is a quick way to do it.
We have a problem here with cigarette butts being thrown on the floor
and this is how we're going to remedy the issue with our employees.
I'm gonna put four holes in this top.
You can do this basically with just drill bits but I have a reamer, so I'm just going to ream it a little bit...
...so it gives a nice, clean hole.
I have a three-quarter reamer. This is a half inch bit that I just used.
Makes a nice clean hole the reamer.
I'll show you afterwards. Well let me show you right now.
So you can see the top here after I used the half-inch bit.
You can see how it tore up the top.
Here I put a three-quarter inch reamer in, you can see how nice and clean that hole is.
That's the perfect way to do it.
Or you can take a hammer and then you can tap it if you like.
Whoops! Guess I didn't have that in there tight enough.
There are a couple of sharp edges there and I'm just going to use my vice
here and just tap down a few of these tight areas.
I'm gonna take my bucket...
...take all this stuff out of my way...
...and tape my sign to it.
I'm going to fully tape the sign so the elements do not affect the paper.
So, fully tape the sign...
...so it stays.
There's my sign. I'm gonna cut the bag of sand.
I picked up the sand at Lowes. Basically it's just play sand; 50-pound bag.
You can buy it for, I don't know, three or four bucks. Pretty cheap.
Fill it up about three-quarters of the way, which is perfect.
One bag of sand. My top.
So no one will be taking that with them. Put the top up; all done.
Put it out front, give your employees their designation, where they get rid of their butts, done deal.
Thanks for watching.