Can anyone suggest ways to ensure that my benchwork table is level on a carpet? Should I connect the two halves of each table 1st and then worry about levelling? I have a 2ft and 9in level to use for getting everything lined-up. On the leg bottoms are adjustable t-shaped pads that are screwed into the leg and held there w/ plastic anchors.
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Lee
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Is this a basement floor or house floor? In the basement, the floor is usually higher around the wall and corners. I would use a four foot level and work from the middle of the table or from the high point of the floor. If the table is flat top, Place the level on that if it has a common frame that runs all the way around the table use that. I don’t know if this will help but it’s hard to tell what is needed without seeing the table. Personally I would start with the table together. I would think the carpet would compress equally on all legs but if sets long on the carpet you will never get the depressions out.
Happy railroading
Lee S.
To level my bench work I use a carriage bolt, a wing nut and a T-nut. The legs of my bench work are 2 by 2’s 4ft long. The T-nut is installed into the bottom end of the leg then I install the wing nut upside down on the carriage bolt. The carriage bolt with the wing nut is installed into the T-nut on the bottom of each leg assemble. Raise or lower the carriage bolt to level each corner of the bench. To level the bench. Lock the carriage bolt into place with the wing nut.
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I have found this site quite usefull, and is using these ideas to build my own module-based RR. The instructions are nice and step by step.
http://www.railwaybob.com/Modules/ModLegs/Legs01.html
Regards, Olav in Norway
Another way is to get a pipe cap that fits over the legs of the benchwork, then put a carriage bolt into the the cap and anut on the carriage bolt If you make the hole a in the PVC piple cap the same diamter as the square part of the bolt across the faces, when you tighten the nut ontot he bolt it will pull the square part of the bolt into the cap. Then thread that into the T-nut.
Two advantages, you can adjust it by hand and it gives a broader area on the carpet. If your basement is subject to being damp, put the cap open end down and then then the wood and metal is lifted a couple inches off the floor.
Dave H.
The one question that I haven’t seen asked here is, what are you using for a “benchwork table?” Is this something you constructed, or are you using a commercially available table such as a card table?