I have an old (1978) mill/drill which was inported into Australia from
Taiwan by McMillians under their own name. They were an engineering supply
company that didn't survive the 1990's downturn. It looks a lot like the
Rong_Fu but is slightly different in a few areas.
I recently saw a couple of photos in a magazine which looked a lot more
like mine. One was called an "Eagle 25" and another had "The Alpine
Machine" on the nameplate. Can anyone tell me if they are related to Rong
Fu.

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I have an old (1978) mill/drill which was inported into Australia
from
Taiwan by McMillians under their own name. They were an engineering
supply
company that didn't survive the 1990's downturn. It looks a lot like
the
Rong_Fu but is slightly different in a few areas.
I recently saw a couple of photos in a magazine which looked a lot
more
like mine. One was called an "Eagle 25" and another had "The Alpine
Machine" on the nameplate. Can anyone tell me if they are related
to Rong
Fu.



...ah.. The Taiwan govnment were quite clever - they designed quite a
few machine tools, then licenced the designs to many companys at a
very nominal fee, thus encouraging them to export machine tools. The
result is many lines of very similar but not identical machines.
Alpine imported some mill drills into the UK that were practically
identical to the ones Warco imported, but had some minor differences.
Alpine also failed to survive, but Warco are going strong.

AWEM

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"Grumpy" wrote in message
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I have an old (1978) mill/drill which was inported into Australia
from
Taiwan by McMillians under their own name. They were an engineering
supply
company that didn't survive the 1990's downturn. It looks a lot like
the
Rong_Fu but is slightly different in a few areas.
I recently saw a couple of photos in a magazine which looked a lot
more
like mine. One was called an "Eagle 25" and another had "The Alpine
Machine" on the nameplate. Can anyone tell me if they are related
to Rong
Fu.



..ah.. The Taiwan govnment were quite clever - they designed quite a
few machine tools, then licenced the designs to many companys at a
very nominal fee, thus encouraging them to export machine tools. The
result is many lines of very similar but not identical machines.
Alpine imported some mill drills into the UK that were practically
identical to the ones Warco imported, but had some minor differences.
Alpine also failed to survive, but Warco are going strong.

AWEM

Ah! So that was what happened. I've seen a lot of similar (but not
identical machines) and wondered what the connection was.

Don't worry too much about it. They are all quite similar. Every Chinese dude with a 2-car garage
makes them.

Bob Swinney
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"Grumpy" wrote in message
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I have an old (1978) mill/drill which was inported into Australia
from
Taiwan by McMillians under their own name. They were an engineering
supply
company that didn't survive the 1990's downturn. It looks a lot like
the
Rong_Fu but is slightly different in a few areas.
I recently saw a couple of photos in a magazine which looked a lot
more
like mine. One was called an "Eagle 25" and another had "The Alpine
Machine" on the nameplate. Can anyone tell me if they are related
to Rong
Fu.



..ah.. The Taiwan govnment were quite clever - they designed quite a
few machine tools, then licenced the designs to many companys at a
very nominal fee, thus encouraging them to export machine tools. The
result is many lines of very similar but not identical machines.
Alpine imported some mill drills into the UK that were practically
identical to the ones Warco imported, but had some minor differences.
Alpine also failed to survive, but Warco are going strong.

AWEM

Ah! So that was what happened. I've seen a lot of similar (but not
identical machines) and wondered what the connection was.