[HBFixedGear]

That isn't entirely true. It will level but when it is, the right front foot is off the ground. tried everything i can think of but no joy. Thinking about clamping the rt front foot to the floor and working around it. Any suggestions?

[ShovelheadMark]

Shim it?

[HBFixedGear]

I can make the foot touch the floor but if it does it throws off the level in both x and y. The base is a weldment and clearly it is racked. It could have been like this for 20 years. Previous owner of this business never checked service tech's work and thought PM was something that happened after lunch. Hoping someone else might have run into this before.

[ShovelheadMark]

Sorry I misunderstood .

[HBFixedGear]

Well it turns out that it really won't level! For what ever reason the weldment base is racked. If it came that way from Fadal or is a result of sitting cock-eyed for 15 years is unknown but at least I'm not crazy.

BJ

[motionman]

Most of the time when I see this its because the floor is not level, but I am not in your shop so I dont know for sure. Shim the pad, and get table level close, but there is a lot more to machine geometry than just a level table. Use a magbase and indicator to check squareness in XYZ plane and tram the table. A cylindrical square is very helpful in setting machine geometry. You may have to shim the spindle, the instructions for this are available online.