Now you're using a Dasher to make ice cream? What a great idea!

NOT this Dasher:

oooohhh look!!! one that almost runs! Just needs to be rebuilt! I have two of 'em!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Late-1920S-Early-30S-Johnson-Utilimotor-/290943526987?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43bd95e84b

oooohhh look!!! one that almost runs! Just needs to be rebuilt! I have two of 'em!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Late-1920S-Early-30S-Johnson-Utilimotor-/290943526987?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43bd95e84b

I've found about 8 of them that still exist . . . including the two you own.  And thought Maytags were rare!     You need to get yours running!

Saw these at the McMinnville fair

that trailer looks way over loaded!!!

Can't be overloaded . . . it's only got about 20 HP worth of engines on it!

I ran a couple of tanks of gas through my Maytag at Swap-A-Paluza, and with the help of William, Randal and Chuck, I got my White Mountain Ice Cream Freezer in working order.  To make it look pretty, I still need to strip the old paint off the wood bucket and repaint it (I have a feeling one or two layers of the paint may be lead based), and weld up and install the lower replacement ring we made (the original had rusted away).

Now I just have to figure out how to hook the two of them together.  The Maytag is supposed to run about 1050 RPM.  I'm guessing I need to run the freezer at about 30 RPM.  If I did the math right, that's about 35:1.  Anybody have a small 35:1 speed reduction gearbox laying around?   

I can rig something up using a jack shaft.  I can use the small pulley on the engine to drive a big pulley on one side of the jack shaft and have a small pulley on the other side driving a big pulley on the freezer . . . but that requires a lot of math to figure out exactly what size pulleys to use.  A gear box would really simplify things.

But, I've looked at the price of new gear boxes . . . I really doubt that even with the Shaw discount it would make it cheap enough for me to justify buying a new gear box.  I'm hoping to find a used one somewhere.  If that doesn't pan out soon, I'll try Motion.  I kind'a got a feeling I'll end up with two belts, 4 pulleys and a jack shaft.

Yeah, use a vw transmission... Just take a stub axle and bolt it to the output cup on an old IRS. Tack weld or slide a pulley onto the end. Then you take a old clutch disc and affix a pulley to it and slip it over the input shaft with a cotterpin to hold it on. Get a buggy shifter kit and you'd be golden!!!

You could have 4 speeds plus a few extra clutch discs with extra pulleys affixed for more variation.

or, you could find the cone pulleys from the top of a drill press and make those work!