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Knee mill table aligment?

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philf:
Pekka,

Two books you may find helpful are Machine Tool Reconditioning by Connelly and Testing Machine Tools by Schlesinger. PDFs of both plus other interesting titles can be found on http://totallyscrewedmachineshop.com/documents/documents.html

Phil.

trapper:
Dont know if this would work as there will be a lot of better trusted ways-such as "traming"once you have established the table is level,A quick way prior to clocking would be to use a precision spirit level-not a cheap version the type you would use for leveling a lathe out if you have established the bed is true with a DTI you could then put the precision level on the table-they can be zeroed in via the adjusting screws on side of the body-zero it in then put the level on the head maybe holding it in place with a magnet-those levels are precise--or couple blocks on table one to left-one to right of spindle say foot either way.A two long paralells long ways sitting on blocks with a gap say 3ins between them back to front (or whatever)you can drop the head onto the paralells so the spindle is sitting on the paralells

PekkaNF:
Thank you, that's a quite a bit of bedside reading. Had a 5 min look on Schlesinger paper and that looks like exactly what I am looking for. Probably T-slot quality is not up that standard....but measurement and methology looks like what I need. And it is metric.

Pekka

sparky961:
There are some great old books at that link you posted, Phil.  Thanks for that.

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