I have an older 400lb stainless steel bottling tank that needs the gears replaced on the paddle turning mechanism. Currently, as the honey starts to cream, the gears on top of the tank will slip, grind away and drop filings to into the honey. The old gears where fed off a one half hp motor and connect to a large pulley . I would like to change all this to a directly coupled motor and a worm gear box . The worm gear box will change the drive 90 degrees allowing for the connection of the stainless steel stirring paddles in the tank. My question is, what is the optimum ball park rpm to cream the honey? I would run this a couple hours each day and fill containers when the honey starts thicken.

Alex in Ontario

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