Photo Index - Kearney & Trecker Co. - Model K

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Kearney & Trecker Co.
Milwaukee, WI

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Metal Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Mill, Vertical
Machine Size:	No 3 Plain
Submitted By:	Robert (RobBob) Forster

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Model K
Date of Manufacturer:	1943
Serial Number:	2 4230
Last Updated	1/22/2021 12:47:58 AM

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This Model K was bought at auction for $320. The hardest part is was moving it. A chain fall was used to slide it up two pieces steel and on to the trailer. The best I can tell, these rolled out the door at 7800 pounds.

It came with three overhead supports, and the clamp for the flood coolant. It is missing the cutter head. The 10HP motor has a bad winding. I have replaced the motor with a newer motor.

This is a War Finish machine and is a survivor. Built during WWII for men and women of skill, more of the later, who worked hard to provide weapons of war. When the war ended, a lot of these machines, owned by Uncle Sam and on loan to manufactures, were lost in the shuffle. The office that track these machines was shut down and provided expansion of the industrial base in the USA. It might not have been the "great New Deal" that helped the USA recover. The companies that had these made them disappear. From there, they past form company to company till they were pushed into a back corner of a shop to be used as a storage table. Most found there way to a scraper and have been lost.

It past into the hands of this man that had ran one years before and wanted to relive his past. This was bought from a man that only wanted to see it run again as per his daughter. I hope to send her a video this week of it cutting for the first time in years.

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Comments: As I bought it and where it was sitting
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Comments: Coolant clamp
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Comments: War Finish. This was done to save time and to get the machine on the production line
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Comments: The handle that is always missing. Only one comes with the machine.
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Comments: The is a picture inside the gearbox of the selector gears.
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Comments: This is the gearbox removed, below you can just see the brake.
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