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Hand operated plunger type pump.

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Lawrie Alush-Jaggs03/10/2011 00:26:11
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Hi Clive
 
I was thinking about your problem again and remembered that as a kid I used to spend time on a friends farm in north central Victoria. They lept bees, sfficient hives to produce about 100 KG of honey. They had invested in the centrifuge and a hot water knife and were thinking about a pump but decided against it for several reasons.
 
1 was the cost of the pump.
2 was the that fact that it was yet another item to clean
3 and maybe most importantly was the amount of honey wasted by virtue of being left in the pump.
 
They settled for a bucket with a rotary knife blade gate on it which cuts off the flow with very liitle dribble.
 
Not a very good drawing but you'll get the idea.
 
You can have the excitememt of building it. There is no problem with crystalisation over what you would normaly have due to particulate matter as there is no change in presure and the temperature is up to you.
Most importantly and I say this as someone who has washed a huge amount of kitchen equipment, the lean up for this device only takes one or two minutes.
Lawrie

Richard Parsons03/10/2011 04:37:58
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Lawrie


That is what we used in the 50s. Two things the bottom edge of both the knife and the back plate were bevelled to reduce thickness and give the Honey less to stick to and reduce the drip size. Under the head of the retaining nut (A wing nut) there was a fairly substantial spring. The thread used was of course was ‘O’ BA. (so if you lost it you could not go to the local Iron Monger and just buy a new one. Until Dad ‘Blew the Gaff’ and told old ‘’Tinny Clarke’ what it was.


The whole thing was made out of stainless steel and I think had been ‘liberated’ as it had the letters ‘DR’, a swastika and an eagle on it.

Clive Hartland03/10/2011 08:10:46
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I think that I am going to make a similar device to the gate valve, but plunger operated.
A body to fix into the base of the honey bucket and then a a plunger with a bore of about 0.5" that will be operated by a hinged lever on top.
The plunger will have a spring under it to lift it shut as pressure is taken off the handle.
I will incorporate a fixed bar that I can use as a hold when squeezing down on the lever.
I will incorporate 'O' rings as necessary.
I will make a drawing and see if I can attach it here later.
I have come to the conclusion it will be too difficult to make a one stroke manual pump as it will be almost unmanageable to apply the necessary pressure and control it.
Let gravity do the work I think.
 
Clive

Edited By Clive Hartland on 03/10/2011 08:14:01

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