Nesikep
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Hello all, Since we sold our steers off and everyone is weaned, I have help one cow back as a dairy cow for our own milk for a while, and have a few questions
we have a really old Vega (mfg by Eaton) cream centrifuge, which is probably about from 1950, and is functioning mechanically, however, it doesn't separate the cream because the cream turns into butter on the disks... we've tried with warm fresh milk, cold milk, adjusting the speed, etc and it just always turns into butter and clogs it.
What we're wondering is how fast the milk should flow through the machine, and if there's a limit to how much fat content the milk can have.. I'm thinking I may have a defective cow, her milk has1 cup cream over 6 cups milk if you just let it sit a day or so, which works out to 14% (Homogenized store milk is 3.25%)..
any help would be good, because if we can't get this centrifuge to work, it's going to be demoted to a flower pot... I'll try and get a picture of it
we have a really old Vega (mfg by Eaton) cream centrifuge, which is probably about from 1950, and is functioning mechanically, however, it doesn't separate the cream because the cream turns into butter on the disks... we've tried with warm fresh milk, cold milk, adjusting the speed, etc and it just always turns into butter and clogs it.
What we're wondering is how fast the milk should flow through the machine, and if there's a limit to how much fat content the milk can have.. I'm thinking I may have a defective cow, her milk has1 cup cream over 6 cups milk if you just let it sit a day or so, which works out to 14% (Homogenized store milk is 3.25%)..
any help would be good, because if we can't get this centrifuge to work, it's going to be demoted to a flower pot... I'll try and get a picture of it