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  • So what am i missing - everything is perrrrrfectly level. but I have a lean that makes the top out by a few mm compared to the bottom.


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  • Level might be slightly on the piss. Do you have a big flat plat you could rest it on?

    Otherwise might be the feet/wheels on the cabinet and/or their fasteners?

  • You mean the back is lower than the front?

  • I've got ours off the wall and redid the rail. I hadn't realised how much 'play' the spirit level bubble had. One needs to have the back off because one side must not be pushed in to the back enough and it's not square. Might it be that?

  • Check everything for square - measure corner to corner on each face or use a large square if you have one, then check for level. If it isn't square, it can never be level on all axes simultaneously.

    Also, check the accuracy of your levels. Hold them on a surface, note the bubble position, then flip 180 degrees on the same spot - if the bubble isn't in an identical position, the level is borked.

  • I don't mean to sound condescending but in my experience a lot of people don't realise that when you're reading a spirit level you can get it wrong. You should be looking at it so that the rings that the bubble sits in appear as lines.

  • So what am i missing -

    Parallelogram

    And the best spirit levels have some form of anti parallax to stop error in reading

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