K-Line K2100 planer

Modified on 2010/06/25 15:09 by BobHolcombe Categorized as Manufacturer Information
===K-Line K2100 12-3/4" x 4" planer===
  

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K-Line K2100 12-3/4” x 4” planer originally manufactured around 1948. The entire casting of the K2100 is aluminum along with a 12-3/4” x 20” cast iron table. Even with that much aluminum and without the sheet metal stand and motor, the planer alone weighs 170 pounds. 

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''View from rear out feed side''


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This K2100, serial number 6999, was made by Kneisley Electric Company, rebadged as Foster Manufacturing and sold by Freeman Supply.


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Photos of the table guide plates used in the K2100 and changed in the next 12" K-Line model, the K2200. These are the guide plates that Tom Kneisley said were difficult to adjust and keep in adjustment. Each of the 2 - 6" x 6" plates are held in place by 4 bolts that need to be loosened in order to tighten or loosen the 6 adjusting set screws. The “in-out” process is a pain. The second picture shows the steel gib used to prevent or correct any wear on the guide plates. They are adjusted by 3 set screws and locked in place by 3 more set screws. 

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The 1953 model K2200 (right)  was redesigned to use 2 table guide pins similar to the [Kneisley Electric Company|'''Yager/K2000'''] 10” planers, needing no adjustment.  


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The feed and cutterhead assembly. The 3 knife cutterhead uses 2 WC88504 bearings in the aluminum castings. Each knife is stamped “K-2504". Knurled in-feed and neoprene out-feed rollers use bronze flange bearings. The out-feed roller will need re-coating. 

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These are feed roller compression springs and screws with oil soaked felt wicks. Adjusting the screws increases or reduces the roller tension.


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''View from cutterhead pulley. Aluminum casting with feed assembly attached with 8 bolts. Gears are cast iron.''


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''View from feed roller gears''


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The K2100 has a power “automatic table adjustment device”. By engaging the clutch the single adjusting screw raises or lowers the table. Final adjusting can be done by hand adjusting the 14” center wheel.


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''Motor mount''


Although a 1-1/2 to 2 hp motor was recommended, this planer has a 1 hp 1725 rpm Baldor repulsion motor hinged below a wood table in the cabinet base. A 6” pulley from the motor to a 3” pulley drives the cutterhead at 3600 rpm. A 1-1/2” pulley mounted on the motor shaft to a 7” pulley drives the feed rollers.



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''The K2100 alongside a Yager (later the K2000) 10-3/4" planer''

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''The K2000 and K2100 models from the 1949 Powr-Kraft catalog''
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