Could you manage with 10mm studs ?

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MichaelG.

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Hence my question, George

MichaelG.

Have a look at these on the Myford site **LINK**

I purchased a set a few months back and they were the best value I could find

John

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Myford are closed until further notice, don’t break your lathe until the virus is over.

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 26/03/2020 17:35:15

I used Concrete studs (Rawlbolt type) into the floor. As I wanted floorgrade chipboard on top of underfelt insulation 4 steel bushes around an inch thick on the studs and then nuts to fix the studs to the floor and bring the holddown surface above the level of the chipboard flooring. Lathe stand dropped on top of this and bolted down. It appeared that I managed to get the self leveling screed pretty well level as there was no need to skim the bushes to create a level , no rock on the stand before bolting down. That was I achieved a lathe bolted through to the concrete and standing free of the flooring chipboard so I get a stable lathe and warm feet to boot.

If you don't fancy that was of working you could have a go at making your own. I have a set of floor mounts that came of an electron microscope which take the form of a fat cylindrical bush finethreaded on a 30mm ish bore with a studded boss screwed into it. Spanner flats allows the boss to be adjustable for hight and the machine is bolted to the projecting stud. The mounts also have thick rubber on the underside. You don't have to be as sophisticated as that but if you start there and modify you wont go far wrong.

The mill has big yellow ones from axminster.

regards Martin

You might designate this unhelpful but if the garage floor is 'rough' it won't hurt to have a few dabs of cement at the target points levelled off with a carefully selected bit of 4×4 which can find a subsequent use. I think any kind of screwed foot adds a point for flexing. If it were only 4 feet I'd suggest 3 fixed and only one adjustable (front right one).

My big lathe is on blocks of wood, worked well for damping and vibration and its still in the same place as when we put it there.

If you type "adjustable feet" into ebay, there are loads of cheaper, non-resilient mount, ones for not much money.
I'm using a mixture of the lighter ones with the ball ends on the threaded bit and, for the heavier machine, this type, which are a but stronger.

They seem to work well enough

Bill

derek hall 1:

I have ex-Warco black 80mm dia x 12mm thread mounts under my lathe which weighs well over half a ton. They seem to work OK and I wonder what the yellow ones have to justify the extra cost?

Hi Bo'sun, I've only used the pivoting ones and have my Warco Major supported by four of them and they are fine for that.

Regards Nick.

I guess that the construction and manufacture of the metal outer part, rubber, threaded rod, nuts etc plus all other costs etc. Everything is more expensive than it should be !

I expect shock proof and and levelling are the features of the component

Derek

Same here, hence my question earlier – does seem like overkill.

The one thing that has struck me with both my mill and lathe being on Polymax resilient mounts is that the machines are now noticeably quieter than when on solid mounts direct to concrete.