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Leveling Workshop cabinets

Mark Lohbeck

Mark Lohbeck

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Hi All-My workshop is in my garage which slopes from the sides to the middle where there is a drain. All of my shop cabinets are on wheels including the cabinet which holds my Midi Lathe. When I'm turning or using the grinder the vibrations causes the drawers to slide open while I'm working which is annoying because the floor is not flat but sloped. I'm not sure how to level the cabinets without taking off the wheels, which I don't want to do. Any suggestions.
 
Hey Mike-thanks for the tip. I've seen someone use these on a Powermatic 3520C to make it mobile. I just used heavy duty casters I got from Amazon, the leveling ones should work fine for me.
Thanks again.
 
I like the idea of leveling casters - use some in my shop. I've also leveled lathes and cabinets by drilling a shallow hole of the right depth with a Forstner bit in a thin (maybe 3x3 block of wood) and setting the casters and such into the holes. But I didn't have leveling casters.

The block method is also a great method to raise a lathe for a tall person, using thicker blocks of wood. Did that for decades until I got older than dirt and shrunk 3".

For things that sit on the floor without casters but need just very minor adjustments I like the thin plastic wedges used to align window and door frames. Not needed if you use leveling feet.

Funny thing about sloped shop floors. When I built my shop I sloped it on purpose 3" over 62' (about 0.2 degrees) I figured if ever needed this would provide for drainage towards the lowest room (the maintenance area) with big garage doors (additionally sloped a bit towards the last door for hosing out the room). Also, the shallow slope let me mount and slope 64' of gutters gracefully towards the down spouts on the far end. The extremely small slope on the floor had no detectable effect otherwise.

JKJ
 
Mark Lohbeck said:
Hey Mike-thanks for the tip. I've seen someone use these on a Powermatic 3520C to make it mobile. I just used heavy duty casters I got from Amazon, the leveling ones should work fine for me.
Thanks again.
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How are the casters attached? Could you add shims between the casters and cabinet to level them out? It would mean that the cabinets would be at a tilt on a level floor, but you'd have to determine if that would be a problem.
 
If you turn the cabinet 180 degrees, the slope will make the drawers stay in. (and maybe be hard to open) there are more elegant solutions, but temporarily, this might work.
 
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