anyone selling cream seperator CHEAP

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I am looking for a used cream seperator for goat's milk. I prefer a small one - not the table top monster kind. Will any cream seperator work? Someone once told me that only a certain kind will work with goat's milk. I was wondering if this was true. Thanks!

-- Tiffani (cappello@alltel.net), March 06, 2002

Answers

Tiffani, the cream seperator I use is one that I bought from an old cattle dairy. Works fine. I think sometimes you have to do some adjustments to fine tune them, but the two I have used have both worked fine for me. Never have found a very small one though, not used anyway and I am too cheap to buy a new one.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), March 06, 2002.

Tiffani --- if you get two offeers on this, let me know!! I've been looking for a used one myself for several years.....

-- Tana Mc (mcfarm@totelcsi.net), March 06, 2002.

If you live in former dairy country you might put an ad in the paper. A lot of separators are still out there in farmers' barns and basements.

I used to find, fix & sell them. The best was DeLaval by far, a Swedish model. The IH was the most popular on the farm, but much inferior to the DeLaval. The little table top models you see advertised have mostly tin plate parts. Easy to rust out. The older dairy models that stood on the floor, at least the later models, had stainles steel parts. If you run across an IH self washer, pass it up. They sometimes could be dangerous when attempting to run the self wash cycle.

I always found my separators by advertising in farm advertiser publications and local papers and I bet I could still find them, especially in the midwest. They appear quite often in farm auctions.

Problem in buying them is that if you aren't familiar with them, you could be buying one that is missing parts. The rubber O-ring will most likely be shot, but that can be replaced. If the owner still has the manual, check it out first.

There are a few companies still making table top separators, but I don't have any experience with them.

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All separators will separate goat's milk, it's just a matter of adjusting the screws on the bowl.

-- bruce (niobrara55@hotmail.com), March 06, 2002.


Here is a nice cream seperator I just saw listed at e-bay. Heres the link, is 22.00 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1077357289

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), March 06, 2002.

There is a site Homestead Products that have a new seperator for 125.00. The least expensive I've seen. I sure would like to have one. Good luck in finding one.

-- sherry (chickadee259@yahoo.com), March 07, 2002.


That Ebay "separator" for $22.00 was a booklet, not the machine!

-- bruce (niobrara55@hotmail.com), March 07, 2002.

Hoegger's (sp?) is now stocking a very nice looking hand-crank model from India for $325. The bowl and disks are actually stainless steel.

http://hoeggergoatsupply.com/butter.html#14B-6

-- Laura Jensen (lauraj@seedlaw.com), March 07, 2002.


OOPS..... sorry, been sleep deprived lately so I apologize for the error.

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), March 07, 2002.

If anyone wants it, I have an old tabletop Montgomery Ward electric cream separator with tinned bowls. Consider it "parts" as I don't expect it works & it may not all be here. I do have the instruction book (somewhere). It is a heavy thing & not worth shipping anywhere. I will be happy to deliver it in western PA or Northern WVA panhandle area. Maybe swap it for a glass of fresh goat milk & conversation?? Or maybe, as my DH keeps hinting, someone needs a boat anchor... Cindy of Pgh

-- Cindy Wells (cindywellsofpgh@yahoo.com), March 09, 2002.

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