Cream separator parts?

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I just looked in the unanswered questions section and saw someone offering to sell a float, disks and holder for the disks for a cream separator. I just bought an old cream separator that is one of those big one piece metal cone shaped things on legs that has a spigot on the bottom to pour off the cream and little glass windows on the side to tell you where the cream line stops. What are the parts this person is talking about? Is it to some other kind of separator. I don't think the kind I bought has any other parts.

-- Billie (robmars@ix.netcom.com), January 12, 2000

Answers

It's kind of hard to tell from your description, but it sounds like the kind of separator you have uses the gravity/settling method to get the cream. The one they are talking about with the disks is for the kind of separator that uses centrifugal force. You turn the crank handle, the disks spin round and round, this forces the cream out of the milk and the milk comes out one spout, the cream out of another.

Kim KountryLife.com

-- Kim (farmer40@webtv.net), January 13, 2000.


Kim is right. Your separator permits the cream to rise to the top "naturally" so to speak and doesn't require disks or any other parts. A one gallon glass jar with a spigot at the bottom (ice tea or lemonade jars I believe they are called) are used in the same manner. Much of the cream will naturally rise to the top of the milk and you then drain the milk off from the bottom to the cream line. A true separator separates the cream from the milk by centrifical force. These separators are usually electric or hand cranked and spin the milk a high speed through the disks. This method removes all the cream, or nearly so. Hope this answers your question.

-- Marci (ajourend@libby.org), January 13, 2000.

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