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This is a video produced by The leblond company on lathe leveling.
Some level of folks and machines perhaps need no level at all, and can make do with the two collar test, or maybe not even that, but if one has a lathe capable of high precision and the work demands it, a high precision level is necessary, as the video presents, If the lathe has a middle set of legs, it is especially necessary. I do know from personal experience, that a lathe leveled "perfectly" with a #98 level is a mile off with #199 or other level of comparable sensitivity.Good Lord! The 98 isn't accurate enough? If I fart in my garage, it's enough to change the barometric pressure off enough to move the bubble to the other side of vial! Keeping in mind, a sheet of paper under one side of level will do the same. I'm somewhat kidding, but I would be shocked if the 98 isn't plenty accurate enough for any of us garage shop monkeys...