Hi folks,
I'm trying to level (untwist) the bed on my Denford Viceroy lathe, but it turns out there are no leveling screws underneath the bed!
It's cutting quite a larger taper when I chucked up a 75mm x 200mm aluminum test bar. I haven't checked the head alignment but as I know the bed was removed from the cabinet by the previous owner, I'm assuming it's a twisted bed.
I lifted the bed off the steel cabinet today and found it was simply bolted down, one bolt in each corner, passing through a clearance hole in the chip pan. One of the bolts was missing altogether.
This is actually the second Viceroy I've owned and the previous one had a double-threaded widget in each corner which you used to jack the bed up and down.
Any idea what gives here? It looks to me like it was this way from the factory, because the chip pan holes aren't threaded. Should I just resort to using shims under one corner? Any idea why there are no leveling bolts?
Would appreciate any advice, would like to get this thing cutting straighter.
Here's the rubber washers which were squished between the chip pan and the bed:-