Thread: One for the fridgies

Originally Posted by scarry

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Haven't seen any since that job.

Other jobs used auto Transformers from memory(which is getting a bit vague these days)
With Star Delta start.
Or part winding start.

Those were about the limit in my day to day work.
Satellite Milk Depots in Residential Areas mainly. I guess because generally they started softly.

When I say Satellite I don't mean Ron would have played with them from a comfy desk, they were simply called that because they were scattered around the suburbs instead of the main Southern Farmers milk processing plant at Mile End which meant the Milk Vendors didn't need to travel back & forth to get their Cans & Bottle bins.


Jeezuz, a Milk Depot crashing to earth doesn't bear thinking about because Ron may have pressed the wrong button.

Talking of milk, I actually miss working on dairy farms, I used to look after a few when I was younger.

Originally Posted by 4bee

.......and Oil Bath Filters? Gelled bag filters, Should I even ask?

Surely you had seen oil bath filters on those large DX AC plants,motor up high,chain to bank of honeycomb type filters that moved every so often through an oil bath?Sort of like a roller door set up but went all the way around,not just up and down.
Must have been a few around in your day.

Anyway,you didn’t miss much,bloody dirty oily things,when we were apprentices we had to clean out the oil bath,all fun and games

Then as I mentioned there is the one in the series LR’s,that worked well,until it got a gut full of water and blew the oil into the engine🤣
Don’t ask me how I know......

Originally Posted by rick130

Talking of milk, I actually miss working on dairy farms, I used to look after a few when I was younger.

Yes, they were a bit special & away from the usual daily grind. Scooping chilled full cream milk out of a Vat with an enamel mug kept in the Van solely for that purpose.



Believe it not they used to smell nice as well. Fresh Cow **** ? Yummy. Well I found them so.


Vats were better than Ice Banks 'cos they stored their milk in the tub.

Originally Posted by scarry

Surely you had seen oil bath filters on those large DX AC plants,motor up high,chain to bank of honeycomb type filters that moved every so often through an oil bath?Sort of like a roller door set up but went all the way around,not just up and down.
Must have been a few around in your day.

Anyway,you didn’t miss much,bloody dirty oily things,when we were apprentices we had to clean out the oil bath,all fun and games

Then as I mentioned there is the one in the series LR’s,that worked well,until it got a gut full of water and blew the oil into the engine🤣
Don’t ask me how I know......

Bugger, of course I have seen a couple but they didn't immediately spring to mind 'cos they weren't part of my daily grind & just the odd one here & there but we didn't have to service them. I can imagine it being a bastard of a job. Sounds like it was.

Originally Posted by rick130

Talking of milk, I actually miss working on dairy farms, I used to look after a few when I was younger.

Done a few of those as well,mainly as an apprentice we used to do a run in the Gold Coast hinterland.

Before dawn starts, would be back at Beaudesert golf club early arvo for a few hits and a drink or three, on the way home.

The Mechanic used to be a mad golfer and there was always a set of clubs in the van,and a 12 gauge in case we saw any ducks.

And guess who had to wade through all the swamp and reeds to get the ducks....bloody freezing cold in winter.

Many had Kelvinator semis, and another brand maybe Prestcolds,i think they were called, on the vats, and plates.All R12.

Those were the days.

Probably about 12 yrs ago they shut the Wacol Prison dairy, we did the work there for around 20 yrs.Interesting times, two 4cyl Terry belt drives on R12,cooling a large chilled water tank,and two Kelly Y's on the shed roof doing the milk vats.

Originally Posted by scarry

Done a few of those as well,mainly as an apprentice we used to do a run in the Gold Coast hinterland.

Before dawn starts, would be back at Beaudesert golf club early arvo for a few hits and a drink or three, on the way home.

The Mechanic used to be a mad golfer and there was always a set of clubs in the van,and a 12 gauge in case we saw any ducks.

And guess who had to wade through all the swamp and reeds to get the ducks....bloody freezing cold in winter.

Many had Kelvinator semis, and another brand maybe Prestcolds,i think they were called, on the vats, and plates.All R12.

Those were the days.

Probably about 12 yrs ago they shut the Wacol Prison dairy, we did the work there for around 20 yrs.Interesting times, two 4cyl Terry belt drives on R12,cooling a large chilled water tank,and two Kelly Y's on the shed roof doing the milk vats.

Our brand were NZ Truscotts, they worked well. Terrys on those, of varying models.

I love the smell of cows Des!

Cousins had a dairy, and when I was a little bloke Dad's business had 100 dairies on their books!
The vast majority where gone when I was working, there were 6 initially when I was 25 and I only had two left in the finish when we moved to the farm, all the others had closed.
One had a Dairy Kold ice bank, it was all new fangled, adapted to an old Dairy Kold vat, they'd just removed the fixed orifice and pumped the chilled water through the old refrig circuit, and the other had a Kelly 72 from memory, can't recall what type of vat though.

But I'd worked on Dairy Kold, Alfa Laval, Frigrite, and a couple that I remembered five minutes ago and now....