Excel Multi Mill looking for information

[Craig BrownParticipant @craigbrown60096]

Please excuse the low quality eBay pictures but I have just purchased this machine and had to partially dismantle it to get it home so until it's back together it's the best I have got at the moment.

I took a bit of a punt on this machine on eBay as the pictures/description were poor but I also couldn't find any information online about this machine, I was able to find only 1 average image online.

So was wondering if any of the members have seen or own one of these machines before? What little I know about it so far are that it is made in Taiwan in 1981, has a int/iso 30 taper in both the vertical and horizontal spindles. It does have an "Alpine" sticker on one of the belt covers as well as the Excel tag on the machine. The turret is swung through 180 degrees to switch between vertical and horizontal mode. The vertical head has a quill that is currently seized (I believe the clamp is just rusted in he locked position). It does have a knee actuated by a handwheel underneath the table.

If anybody has any information or experience of these machines I would be interested to hear as it appears to be quite a versatile machine that is quite stout for its size but I was surprised to find no information online about it.

Thanks, Craig

[Craig BrownParticipant @craigbrown60096]

Taiwanese vertical and horizontal milling machine

[BazParticipant @baz89810]

That will be a lovely little machine when it’s been cleaned up. Taiwanese stuff of the 1980s is generally good quality, certainly better than some of the Chinese offerings nowadays.

[Craig BrownParticipant @craigbrown60096]

Thats what I was thinking Baz, there are a few minor issues to iron out but once they are it should be a nice machine. Obviously though from the lack of replies here and lack of information online then they clearly didn't make/sell many of them, hopefully the reason for this would be they were too expensive rather than not very good.

[DiogenesIIParticipant @diogenesii]

Excel Machine Tools are still going – might be worth a go, you never know what they might have kicking round in the bottom of a drawer somewhere..

Looks like a handy machine, must have been 'industrial-price-level' when new, otherwise you'd think fabricators & agri-workshops would be full of them.. ..well spotted that man..

[Craig BrownParticipant @craigbrown60096]

Didn't consider that to be honest, great idea, I will give them an email tomorrow.

I guess it would have been up against the likes of the VMC, but with the added costs associated with the horizontal side made it not as desirable? Who knows but as long as it turns out as good as it appears then I will be happy

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