Description
Product Overview
The Fujita 200mm Machinist Frame Level is a precision Japanese-made spirit level built for serious toolroom and workshop applications where a bubble tube and a good eye simply aren’t enough. Housed in its original timber storage case and accompanied by its Japanese manual, this is a purpose-built metrology instrument — not a builder’s level — designed to establish true horizontal and vertical references on machine tables, surface plates, and precision equipment. If you’re levelling a lathe bed, tramming a machine column, or aligning a surface grinder, this is the class of tool the job demands.
- Frame-type construction with four ribbed cast pads — The recessed, ribbed cast-iron contact pads at each corner of the frame sit proud of the body, ensuring the level references from consistent, defined contact points rather than a broad flat surface. This matters when you’re working on a surface that isn’t perfectly clean or has minor surface variation — you’re measuring from controlled datum points, not averaging across a wide base.
- Dedicated central vial with precision sensitivity — The longitudinal vial mounted at the centre of the frame is the primary measuring element. Japanese toolroom levels in this class typically carry vial sensitivities in the range of 0.02mm/m to 0.05mm/m per graduation, making them sensitive enough to detect the kind of twist or taper in a lathe bed that would ruin a turning job long before you’d notice it with a cheap level.
- Robust storage and preservation — The original fitted timber case with form-cut interior padding keeps the level protected between uses and prevents the kind of knocks that can disturb vial sensitivity or introduce error into a precision instrument. For a used tool, the presence of the original case is a meaningful indicator of how the tool has been handled and stored.
- 200mm base length — A 200mm frame gives you enough span to span a lathe cross-slide or straddle a machine table way without being unwieldy. It’s a practical working size for bench and machine work — long enough to average out minor surface irregularities, compact enough to use in confined spaces.
- Ideal for — Levelling lathe beds and checking for bed twist, tramming milling machine columns and tables, aligning surface grinder tables to true horizontal, setting up precision surface plates, checking machine way parallelism, and commissioning or relocating machine tools.
Condition
Used (Good Condition / Vintage Japanese Toolroom Level)
This Fujita frame level presents in genuinely good used condition. The ribbed cast contact pads show the kind of light patina and handling marks consistent with careful workshop use — no gouges, no chips, and no evidence of impact damage to the critical contact surfaces. The vial is intact, the bubble is present and moves freely with no visible contamination or sluggishness, and the frame is square with no visible distortion. The original timber storage case is described as being in great condition, and the original Japanese manual is included — both meaningful positives that suggest this instrument has been stored and handled with care rather than thrown in a drawer.
As with any used precision level, the recommended verification step is to perform a two-position reversal test on a known flat reference — place the level, note the bubble position, rotate 180°, and compare. If the reading reverses symmetrically, the vial is accurate to its graduation. If there’s any concern about absolute calibration, the tool can be zero-set against a certified surface plate or master level. The light surface patina on the casting is cosmetic only and has zero bearing on the measuring function of this instrument.
Included:
- 1 x Fujita 200mm Machinist Frame Level
- 1 x Original timber storage case
- 1 x Original Japanese manual / papers
Not included: No calibration certificate. Calibration against a known reference is recommended before critical alignment work.
Brand Information
Fujita is a Japanese precision instrument manufacturer whose levels and metrology tools have long been respected in toolrooms across Asia and exported internationally for professional machine tool alignment work. Japanese-made precision levels sit in the same market tier as RSK and Showa — brands whose vial sensitivity, casting quality, and overall build standard are taken seriously by fitters and toolmakers who understand what separates a measuring instrument from a hardware store bubble level. Japanese manufacturing provenance is a genuine selling point in this category: the combination of tight vial calibration standards and quality cast construction is a known quantity, and “Made in Japan” on a precision level carries weight in the same way it does on a Mitutoyo calliper.
Specifications
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Brand | Fujita |
| Type | Machinist Frame Level (Spirit Level) |
| Base Length | 200mm |
| Frame Construction | Cast body with ribbed precision contact pads |
| Vial Type | Longitudinal spirit vial, centre-mounted |
| Vial Sensitivity | Refer to original manual — typical Japanese toolroom class: 0.02–0.05mm/m per graduation |
| Country of Origin | Japan |
| Condition | Used — Good Condition |
| Included Items | Level, original timber storage case, original Japanese manual |
| Not Included | Calibration certificate |
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