By ringo on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 05:49 pm:

i am studying Industrial Design in University of New
South Wales Sydney Australia. I am currently doing a project that requires
studies on large rubish bins. I have visited website www.mechlift.com and
found it very relavent and interesting. but i'd like to have more
informations and detail drawings of the large MGB's wheelie HDPE bins.
information such as materials, parts, thickness or dimmension would be very
useful to my study. In fact, i see some drawings on
http://www.mechlift.com/discus/messages/52/80.html but the mesurments are
labeled but with no actual dimensions on them. Are there any chances that
you'd have the full drawings of these bins?

Your help would be greatly appreciated

By Gerald Dorrington on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 06:25 pm:

Hi Ringo

What you are calling "large rubbish bins" over in Australia may be a little different from what is happening in the rest of the world. Apparently, one of your market leaders is Sulo. From their website you can see that they supply 50/80/120/140/240/360 liter bins with 2 wheels that fit on the narrow combs, and then the 660 and 1100 liter bins with 4 wheels that fit on the wide combs.

Are you specifically talking of 4-wheel bins?

By ringo on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 06:36 pm:

yes, i am talking about the 1100L 4-wheel bins. i'd like to know more about it.

By Gerald Dorrington on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 06:44 pm:

With round lids, or flat lids?

If it is the round, spring-loaded lids, do you have design laws to prevent children from getting their heads trapped in them (like in France?)

Lifted by a comb along the front edge, or by trunnion arms that hook onto the side pins?

By ringo on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 06:57 pm:

i'm more interested in the flat lids type.

By Gerald Dorrington on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 07:04 pm:

Could you tell me the theme of your study? I happen to have some drawings, but they are private and not intended to be handed to the public.

Can you read .dxf files?

By Ringo on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 04:14 am:

My area of research is in the sanitation systems in disaster striken areas such as indoneasia. I am wanting to design some sort of toilet system which to accompanyy, i need also design a large garbage bins where bags of excrete can be disposed into. i am needing to design a bin that needs dimension of at least 95x195x98cm. This bin is able to be pushed by man power, lifted by lifters, and also lifted by those military helicopters or chinooks.
The reason being i'm asking for info on your 1100L wheel flat lid bins is because I want to get a clear understanding of the structure of them, and requirments+standards of these bins.
Yes, I do have Cad which should allow me to read dxf files.
thankyou

By Gerald Dorrington on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 05:05 pm:

Ringo, I'll send you a drawing from my office on Monday.

I hope that you realise that the 1100 litre plastic bin can only accept a payload of 440kg, which means about 440 litres of excrement, therefore less than half the volume of the bin.

By ARLENE on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 03:32 pm:

who is the manufacture of the 240 litre bins?

please supply the contact telephone number?

By Gerald Dorrington on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 06:01 pm:

Hi Arlene

Please look on this page.

By MOHAMMAD on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 09:03 am:

I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE STANDARDS OF MGB?

By Gerald Dorrington on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 09:10 am:

Hi Mohammad,

Have a look at this thread.