Always fun to see a demo of the operation of a cream separator! Nice restoration job! I did an older model for our local farm museum, which we demo on special event days. Kids and adults alike love to watch it in action!
It makes my heart feel glad that you went to the trouble to bring your machine back into good working order. When I was young living in Canada we didn't have electricity, we milked the cows by hand and my mother cranked the cream separator. She was young then but still it was hard work. Back in those days we had to strain the milk with cheesecloth and the water had to be heated on the stove to warm the separator and clean it. I had to churn the cream to make butter and that job took forever. You have to be careful of how fine to adjust the machine because if you make the cream too thick it'll start to clog the machine and stop the flow. Teach your boys how valuable that machine actually is. All it take is for a power outage and we are right back in the 18th century. Our separator had a bell and it would "ding" when the speed reached the correct RPM for separating the milk. It would ding with every revolution of the handle as long as the speed was constant.
I have one of these that was from our farm when it was a dairy. I think it’s complete. I just found a bunch of McCormick Deering milking machine parts in the barn wreckage too!
According to the original manual, if that clink is happening every rotation, it's too slow. The clink should occur every second or third clink if you're achieving 48 RPM.
I have the same cream separator in nearly as good of condition as yours. I’m looking for a few parts though if anyone has any ideas. For one, I need the cream shelf, and two, I need the nut that goes on top of the centrifuge. I also need gaskets.
@@harmonyhillfarmstead I'd certainly watch both if you made them. I've got a manual I've been working through but I'm so much more a visual learner. Thank you!
