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Five city engg boys turn bicycle into washing machine. Ye dhote, saaf karte, calories bhi ghatate hain, bus aadhe ghante main...The pedal-driven machine designed by them costs no more than Rs 3,000 to make

Arundhati Ranade

Posted On Monday, January 25, 2010 at 01:28:25 AM



The men behind the machine:Rohit Bansal, Ashish Jadhav, Aakash Waghole, Ashish Desai and Tejas Kamble
Pedals which drive the sprocket chain assembly which in turn powers the inner drum

(above) The men behind the machine:Rohit Bansal, Ashish Jadhav, Aakash Waghole, Ashish Desai and Tejas Kamble 

(below) Pedals which drive the sprocket chain assembly which in turn powers the inner drum
Remember Rancho’s school in Ladakh from Three Idiots? The scooter was transformed into a flour mill and a pedal-driven machine used to shear sheep.

These innovations have inspired five teenagers from the city to invent a pedal-driven washing machine. The five turned a bicycle into a washing machine which can be used to wash a load of clothes with energy created by cycling for 25 minutes.

So, you not only end up with a bunch of clean clothes but a few calories burnt as well!

Akash Waghole (17), Tejas Kamble (16), Rohit Bansal (15), Ashish Desai (16) and Ashish Jadhav (16) are the five brains behind the creation of this low cost pedal-driven washing machine.

The five have named their product Ex-wash. All five are first year diploma (mechanical engineering) students of Y B Patil Polytechnic in Akurdi.

“We watched the Aamir Khan-starrer Three Idiots, and thought of doing something innovative for a project using the knowledge we gained in six months of our mechanical engineering course,” Akash said.

“The idea took shape in our minds when we started working for the college-level technical event called Horizon 2010. We wanted to create a useful product rather than just working on prototype theoretical projects. We decided to use the pedalling technique to power a washing machine,” said Rohit.

The material needed to design the machine was not much. “We just bought a cycle and steel drums along with a pulley and chain. Transparent lead was bought to make the front of the machine transparent,” informed the team.

The production cost of Ex-wash is not more than Rs 3,000.


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