[Silverbullet555]

Totally a rookie question.

The table of the lathe on the Y axis is off by .00025 across a 4" run. I trammed it in and then just checked it with a pro tram (which is really cool by the way).

Anyway, when I put my vise on it is off .003 across the same distance.

First off, yes, it is a cheaper vise. I know that.

But, should I shim the vise to the table, the part to the table or suck it up as one should not shim either?

[Silverbullet555]

Took the vise off the rotating base and mounted to the table and now off .0015 while dead on everywhere else.

[Silverbullet555]

Ok. So I took the vise off the rotating base and that got it to .0015. Based on a pm I received I used a piece of shim stock to get the bed of the vise dead on.

[Fastest1]

What ever works is acceptable as long as it doesnt put you in harms way.

[photomankc]

I shim the vice. My table leans just a hair to the rear so I put a tiny bit of foil in the rear and that makes the vice bed dead flat. I'd rather shim the vice that fiddle with every time I clamp a part.