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I'm looking at the stand I just got with the mill, and don't see an easy way to level it. My basement floor is far from level. One idea would be to make two outriggers from rectangular steel tubing. Then I could drill through it and make some hockey puck adjustable levelers. I'd just bolt the outriggers to the base. What size tubing should be used? Or is there a better way?
Have some 1.5" square tubing but it seems to only be 1/16" thick. Seems thin. Have about 16 feet of it. Then again the mill is "only" 250lbs + the stand. The outriggers would only extend 3" just beyond the base (side to side, not fore and aft), so the adjusters would be accessible. Total span of the outrigger would be 19.5". The PM25 base is pretty narrow at only 13.5". Making the base wider would be good. Would this tubing be ok? The span isn't that wide.
Any ideas? Better tubing? Double up the tubing? (Tack weld tubes together?) Make my own stand?
Have some 1.5" square tubing but it seems to only be 1/16" thick. Seems thin. Have about 16 feet of it. Then again the mill is "only" 250lbs + the stand. The outriggers would only extend 3" just beyond the base (side to side, not fore and aft), so the adjusters would be accessible. Total span of the outrigger would be 19.5". The PM25 base is pretty narrow at only 13.5". Making the base wider would be good. Would this tubing be ok? The span isn't that wide.
Any ideas? Better tubing? Double up the tubing? (Tack weld tubes together?) Make my own stand?