Note 50 — Chapter XVI · (continued 3)

Another method of doing this is to find a true surface to stand the legs on and measure the distance the free leg rises from the surface—1" for example. Do nothing to that leg, of course, or to the one diagonally opposite, but saw ½" from each of the two other legs. Suppose, for example, the legs a, b, and c touch (Fig. 669), and d rises ¾" from the floor. Make a and c each 3/8" shorter. Of course you cannot hit it exactly by this method, but a few strokes of a tool will finish the work.