Today's video highlights the parts and pieces of a NOS DeLaval Junior cream separator during assembly. The unique thing about this is it's an authentic piece of unused Dairy Farm Americana...straight out of the 1940's. The Junior is physically smaller than the full size separator. Either of them though would mount to a cast iron stand to hold them securely and at a good average working height. This particular one comes as the standard purchase being operated by a hand crank. A set of pulleys and motor could be easily added, but you have to remember that right after the war there were still many small farms that did not have full electrical services to all the farm buildings. On a similar note, even the pulsing motion of the milkers were set up to receive the vacuum required to operate them either by an electric 'Pulso Pump' OR the vacuum from just about any running farm tractor. That's why you see so many old tractors with a pipe plug drilled and tapped into the intake manifold. The above mentioned 'Pulso Pump' was essentially an air compressor that utilized the vacuum created by pumping air instead of utilizing the high pressure discharge air for compressed air.
After finding out that there were some key components missing from the box, the Much Older Brother reminded me that on occasion our uncle would need a particular partthat would not be in stock. So to make a repair for one of the neighboring small dairy farmers, often the solution was to open one of the new machines in stock and cannibalize what was needed to make the repair. That's the obvious answer to the missing components in my box. So once my brother located the missing parts I needed from other boxes of parts and pieces I had the chance to add a bit of updated footage and slip it into the video in halfway appropriate places. The end result was a fully functional DeLaval Junior by the end of the video. #milk, #farmlife, #DeLaval, #separator

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