Honey pump

Clive,

Remember the density of honey varies so a squirt will not fill your Jars accurately.

Mother kept bees; she and the lady next door had some 8 hives some of which she rented out to farmers with bean fields. The old man made my mother a ‘Filling Bucket’. This had the wax strainer in the top and it sat below the spout of the centrifuge which I as a boy had to climb onto the kitchen table to turn. The filling bucket was made from a stainless milking bucket it has a rotary closure, spring loaded valve in its base. The honey jar was placed onto a pan of a steel yard which had a slider to ‘tare’ off the weight of the jar. You opened the valve on the Bucket which was held open by a ‘sear’ as the steel yard dropped tripped the sear the valve snapped shut and the jar was filled. It would hold to +- ¼ Ounce.

You could rig something up with a modern electronic scale using a solenoid to trip the sear.

Regards

Dick

Edited By John McNamara on 27/09/2011 15:15:41

Edited By John McNamara on 27/09/2011 15:16:51

Edited By Billy Mills on 27/09/2011 18:43:18

Clive Over here in Hungary it is common in the Boondocks to have stainless steel water pumps for drinking water. I will have a look at the 'Gazda bolt' (the sort of farm shop) and see what they have. I also remember that in the U.K. both caravans and boats used metal water pumps to lift water from the tanks into the sinks. Have a look around Boat Chandlers and Caravan suppliers and you might find what you want

Rdgs

Dick