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Antique butter churn mechanism.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...156#post191722
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...186#post180552
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...451#post158513
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...630#post151771
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...707#post123829
Whatever fluid is, does not look like it would make very good butter!!
That is actually an Almond gear-less right angle drive.
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I have seen one of these at the New England Wireless and Steam Museum in Rhode Island. It's an interesting design and fascinating to just watch it run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8RAypUX_c&t=1s
For anyone interested, more about the museum here:
https://newsm.org/
Really neat!
Very cool. Is that sump supposed to be (more) full of oil? Looks like those ball joints are supposed to get an oil bath on every rotation.
I learned from the video, we are looking at the device upside down, with the bottom cover off. The vertical shaft the mechanism slides on, is supposed to be supported on both ends. With the cover on, the shaft would be more fully supported and the whole mechanism would be running in oil.
Ah yes. Good call. I should have watched the video to the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
If you click on the specs above, all will be revealed...
I would be happier with outboard supports for the shafts to lessen sideload on the drive but the principle is brilliant!
Side load appears never an issue, as the pulleys overhung the bearings.
I have catalog of 1935 where they are supplied up to a size #6 with
36" pulleys and a weight of 1800lb! 50 odd years in production suggests
a successful design... Of course by then, belt transmission was on the wane.
