Floor Leveling Compound

I don't like my lathe and mill on a non flat floor. Not sure if it's really causing any problems.
 
ddickey said:
I don't like my lathe and mill on a non flat floor. Not sure if it's really causing any problems.
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I doubt a wavy floor will have any impact on leveling your machines unless you just happen to have a bump smaller than the leveling pad under one leg. We used pads similar to these when leveling machines on uneven floors.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Machine-4-...146882?hash=item440820da42:g:5KYAAOSw5VFWF7uN

The only surface that had to be relatively flat was the area under each pad. The ones in the link seem pretty expensive to me. We used 4"x6"x1/2" 316 stainless plates with a similar divot in the center for the machine leg. Most of the machinery I installed was in our company's food processing plants. By definition the floors weren't flat. They were all sloped to allow for nightly wash down.

Personally I think that leveling the floor is an unnecessary expense. A few pads with a flat surface under each (not even necessarily level) would be more than sufficient.
 
Okay. some nice leveling wedges/jacks will probably suffice then.
Thanks ya'll for commenting.
 
My mill, lathe, and surface grinder are all in my garage with the sloped floor. I built the wooden table for my lathe and leveled it when I built it. My mill has leveling feet on top of squares of plate steel on thick squares of rubber to reduce sound transfer, and same with the grinder. Under the low side of both machines there is a 1.5” gap due to the slope. But have no issues with wobbly or rigity due to the steel square plate (3/8” thick) and thick heavy rubber (1”). And when I spill flood coolant on the floor (All the time...) it just runs out the door!
 
If you think about the actual angles that are present in your floor, they are no doubt so small you would have trouble measuring them. Shawn's ideas, or just some common leveling feet will not slide around on the floor, by your description of it. Friction will overcome slope.
 
Bob Korves said:
If you think about the actual angles that are present in your floor, they are no doubt so small you would have trouble measuring them. Shawn's ideas, or just some common leveling feet will not slide around on the floor, by your description of it. Friction will overcome slope.
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Hi Bob. Not true, sir. Your going to find something along the lines of 1/4" per foot of slope in the garage for water shed. I believe that would fall under building code in most places. However, if a concrete finisher is around here, they could confirm that.
 
Hukshawn said:
Your going to find something along the lines of 1/4" per foot of slope in the garage for water shed.
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I think we actually agree, Shawn. My point is that 1/4" per foot is a very small angle. The machine can easily be mounted on feet or shims to accommodate it. It will not want to slide down the hill, and will not cause problems with the lathe and mill becoming "unstable."
Did the trig, 1/4" rise over a 12" run is 1.19 degrees.
 
Last I checked in the garage, the compressor (unlevelled) has not slid into the driveway. Ha.
 
I got 1/2 stud leveling feet for my mill on amazon for around 12 bucks each the thing you have to be careful with amazon is there software raises prices after you've looked at an item to many times my feet were 12 bucks each and by morning went up to 20 bucks each I searched with multiple devices and they stayed at 20 bucks so I went to my neighbor's and had her look them up on her phone side by side with mine and low and behold on her phone they were 12 and on mine 20 exact same ones exact same SKU etc so I just ordered them from her phone for 12 bucks each
 
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