Excalibur - should I mill it?

diesel_fireman2001 · 12-09-2011, 10:01 PM

So I picked up the excalibur below (03) off ebay with the sole purpose to mill it. I am just not shure if I should mill it now that it is in my hands. It is really nice as it sits, but is just asking me to trim the fat.

On the back of the tray where the switch is there is this little socket head bolt. I pulled it out, but it is a hole that goes to nothing. What is the purpose of it? I looked at some pics on google and see others that have it.

dwn0414 · 12-09-2011, 10:21 PM

full mills should be left alone

ta2maki · 12-09-2011, 10:29 PM

Mill it to enhance the full mill.

I think the hole is for the led? I've only messed with the 04's, so not sure.

B.R. · 12-09-2011, 10:37 PM

it looks really nice. but theyre so bulky.
and it isnt like it will hurt the value to have a nice job done to it, right?

chopper duke · 12-09-2011, 10:40 PM

I love half and full mill Excals. I say don't touch it. It's so purdy!

Edit: Maybe some hidden milling for weight savings?

Mr. Hick · 12-09-2011, 10:40 PM

I think milling a "full mill" excal is like punching eye holes in pre 2k classic autococker bodies.

Trade it for a bare bones no milled regular excal. If you're gonna mill it you're gonna anno it so why not start with plane jane one?

diesel_fireman2001 · 12-09-2011, 11:17 PM

Here is how I had planned to mill it:

Front end around the reg and tray like my viking, lower tube like my viking. Upper tube, clean up around feed neck, cut the back off a little, but the cut will follow the angle of the already existing milling.

viking for refrence:

I'm not worried about hurting value. These arn't worth much anymore anyway. I wouldn't be selling it (unless I found an 04 for cheap to mill up).

MorueM · 12-09-2011, 11:24 PM

Don't. And that excal is an '02 or earlier.

camfcocker · 12-10-2011, 11:47 AM

The ano looks too good to mill.

Any progress on the merlin in the background?

Gunhero5 · 12-10-2011, 12:19 PM

Hidden milling if it really wants to lose weight.

I wouldn't do any cosmetic visual millings to it, then you'd have to re-ano over that nice marble green it already has.

12-09-2011, 10:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
diesel_fireman2001 Mill Masseuse Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oregon	Excalibur - should I mill it? So I picked up the excalibur below (03) off ebay with the sole purpose to mill it. I am just not shure if I should mill it now that it is in my hands. It is really nice as it sits, but is just asking me to trim the fat. On the back of the tray where the switch is there is this little socket head bolt. I pulled it out, but it is a hole that goes to nothing. What is the purpose of it? I looked at some pics on google and see others that have it. __________________ KILLSHOT KUSTOMS - custom machining My Custom Guns: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Custom%20Guns/ Last edited by diesel_fireman2001; 12-09-2011 at 10:04 PM.

12-09-2011, 10:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
dwn0414 Active Member Join Date: Feb 2008	full mills should be left alone __________________ "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907

12-09-2011, 10:37 PM	#4 (permalink)
B.R. THE NEW PA Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: ne Pa	it looks really nice. but theyre so bulky. and it isnt like it will hurt the value to have a nice job done to it, right? __________________ FEEDBACK http://www.mcarterbrown.com/forums/f...-feedback.html this big tranformer came through a town like 30 miles from my hometown!!

12-09-2011, 11:17 PM	#7 (permalink)
diesel_fireman2001 Mill Masseuse Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oregon	Here is how I had planned to mill it: Front end around the reg and tray like my viking, lower tube like my viking. Upper tube, clean up around feed neck, cut the back off a little, but the cut will follow the angle of the already existing milling. viking for refrence: I'm not worried about hurting value. These arn't worth much anymore anyway. I wouldn't be selling it (unless I found an 04 for cheap to mill up). __________________ KILLSHOT KUSTOMS - custom machining My Custom Guns: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Custom%20Guns/ Last edited by diesel_fireman2001; 12-09-2011 at 11:22 PM.

12-09-2011, 11:24 PM	#8 (permalink)
MorueM Active Member Join Date: Mar 2008	Don't. And that excal is an '02 or earlier. __________________ Feedbacks

12-09-2011, 10:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
ta2maki Jumps to conclusions Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sunny Southern California	Mill it to enhance the full mill. I think the hole is for the led? I've only messed with the 04's, so not sure.

12-09-2011, 10:40 PM	#6 (permalink)
Mr. Hick migrant bomb picking.... Join Date: Sep 2011	I think milling a "full mill" excal is like punching eye holes in pre 2k classic autococker bodies. Trade it for a bare bones no milled regular excal. If you're gonna mill it you're gonna anno it so why not start with plane jane one?

12-10-2011, 11:47 AM	#9 (permalink)
camfcocker Active Member Join Date: Dec 2009	The ano looks too good to mill. Any progress on the merlin in the background?

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