Milk tank agitation motor

[tonka]

Im thinking about making myself a cream machine, have the idea of using a motor off a bulk tank to connect to a brass gear pump instead of getting a motor and having to buy a rpm reduction attachment. has anyone done this? I have noticed that some guys use the bulk tank motor on the turn table style cream machine. Thanks!

[Bucket Head]

I think a bulk tank motor and it's reduction will be too slow. However, I do not know what rpm the gear pump is supposed to be. I do know I once counted the rpm's of an old Sunset tank agitator motor and it was a little over forty. You would have to do the math on it, but you would need a good sized pulley on the motor (drive pulley) to make up the difference in speed on the driven pulley. You would not be able to directly connect/couple them- it would pump very slowly.