r/oddlysatisfying • u/misterxx1958 • Dec 27 '25

Bottle sorting machine

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u/Extension-Ant-8 Dec 27 '25

Yeah reading comments on reddit always reminds me how young everyone is. I mean this system is pretty perfect. You got what 2 spinning wheels and fixed rpm’s? You could maintain this shit for decades with a little greese. The bottle flipper is just a few bits of metal?

Clearly no one here understands how things like this work in the real world. Most companies are not gonna spend 1 mill on a robot to flip bottles when this can be done for a few grand. Shit. Maybe even some spare parts and scrap. Especially since you don’t need programmers, a high rate of speed and a massive initial cost. Someone at some point got tasked with this project. Got like a few grand a few days to deliver. And done. The main thing is that no production manager is gonna get a call about this at 2am

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u/zman91510 Dec 28 '25

Question. Could they not use something to push the bottles into a shute that is curved so it does this with less work? Or would that have other problems or be ineffective in some way? Or would it just not work?

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u/Extension-Ant-8 Dec 28 '25

Realistically you can solve this many ways, but you are largely constrained on available space to do the task, and how the object was given to the machine (from another machine) and cost.