Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-02
THE CREAM SEPARATOR.
Valuable Information on How to Clean
mud Takc Care OF ~.

In the way of saving fuel and wear
and tear on the machine it is important
that separator run as easily rs posi-
bic. md this is especially ncedful if the
machine is to be run by hand. To Sc
cure this it is necessary that the bowl
run smoothly; that all bearings be ac-
curately fitted, yet not absolutely tight
and that all bearing surfaces be FREQ
from dead oil, gum and grit and Kept
supplied with light, free running
grade Of oil Loose bearings can gener-
ally be found by the noise made when
running If the machine runs unduly
heavy but still smoothly, flush all boar
ings and pinions with kerosene, to cut
out gum If some shaft is dry of oil, or
tight, or out Of line, the place may gen
orally be found by feeling for warm
bearings with the fingers Sometimes
an oil groove may got stopped up with
gum or burned oil, so that the oil does
not reach tho shaft, causing the ma
chine to run hot, oven if it is apparent
" well fabricated. Grit Of any kind IN
tho oil may heat tight bearing stop
ping a large separator almost instantly
burning the spindle or springing it,
roughening the bearing and perhaps
making "cold weld" between tho
ehaft and bearing, so that it will re
ouiro several thousand pounds pressure
TO force it out l saw bearing so
"stuch' to the spindle of Danish
Weston that blows with heavy ham
mer would not start it, and when put
in testing machine it required over
1850 pounds pressure to 1T on. In
this case the bearing, which was rigid
" set into o cast iron frame, was turned
around in its place so as to grind con
siderable amount of iron into black
powder. No harm is done so long us
bearing does not get excessively hot, so
hot that one cannot bear the hand on
1t. When there is liability to heat, bear
lngs must DO kept dry, and any water
In them aggrayatcs the tendency.
Sometimes beginner is troubled by
milk leaking down into the frame Of
the machine. This ia caused either by
the bowl being adjusted too high or
too low, 80 that tho milk docs not fall
into tho receiving cover, or else the rub
Der ring is worn or frayed, or the cover
Is not screwed down enough to make a
sight joint Tho proper adjustment Of
the height Of the bowl is not a difficult
matter. 4 new bowl cover ring will be
tighter if well soaked in warm water
before using the first time.
Sometimes there is trouble in getting
\ uniform, oven flow of cream. There
are machines in which there are radical
defects Of construction, making them
liable TO clog with cream so MS to stop
the flow entirely, or else to make 1t cx-
.essivcly thick at times and very thin
1t others. The better known makes Of
machines will not do this, however, Ii
he cream is too thick, either the adj
lustment of the regulating device is
wrong or the speed is too high, or the
milk is too warm, or the machine has
been run too long without any milk
running through it, thus packing the
,ream so hard as partially to clog tho
,ream opening.
A most important point is the com
pleteness Of Swimming. Any separator
Ihat is worth using on milk in good
condition, that is not old or sour or par
daily SKINNED already, should leave
not more than one-tonth of per cent
" fat, although the usual factory prac-
dee will not average as good work as
his. When Swimming milk warm from
he COW, it is not impossible to skim
Town to three. hundredths or flve-hun-
lrcdths Of per cent However, the or
linary Babcocli test bottle is Of no use
= estimating amounts below ono-tontt
If 1 per cent, but with the doubl,
,ecked p. & w. bottles we can rcat
airly accurate to two.hundredths of
per cent
The work of the machine should b.
tept track of by occasional tests witt
he Babcock. Ii tho skimming be poor
ither the milk is too cold or the spec,
too slow, or tho capacity has beel
lnduly increased, or the milk is ont o
condition, or the machine itself is u
hult, out of order, or Of u poor style
rof individual demerit. Most machine
pparate best at temperature of no
ess than so degrees while above l0
legrees has probably prejudicial etfec
pon the butter, OF course no nachin
an be expected to do good work at
peed slower than that recommended b.
anu a Sllfeh sfAlllNN NAV LlSll
than this may DO necessary for com
lete work. Regard must, of course, b
sad for the "s:,foty limit" OF bursting
The capacity Of machine will var,
widely with temperature, ago and con
lition Of milk, and in those machine
Ehere tho rate Of inflow is not pormu
lently fixed the operator must use hi
wn judgment, checking his results
no BabcoclS test md remembering tina
is generally bad economy to crowd
nparator. Any good separator ought I
axe very thick cream, say up to .
ler cent fat, and still do practically pc
ect work, but, other things being equa
he richer the cream taken, the great,
he liability to imperfect Swimming.
1t is remarkable thing ii it be tn
land certainly believe it-that even
Machine has its individuality in skin
aing-thnt is to say, that of two bow
aado from tho saino specifications ~
rawlings, made So nearly alike that
Tould be hard to distinguish one fro
no other, one will prove much the bl
r skinner, or perhaps require lc
over than tho other to keep it up
peed. II so, this is Il queer fact. Co
squontly, ii l were TO buy another IN
nine for my own use, l would be pa
cular not only to get the best styl
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