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Pro tip: my grandpa said to never trust a level you didn't drop yourself
He was a cabinet maker for 40 years and said that with a straight face. I was helping a friend frame a shed in his backyard last weekend and grabbed his brand new 4-foot level off the shelf. I checked a top plate and it looked perfect, so we nailed it in. When we went to hang the first rafter, nothing lined up. We pulled out my old beat-up Stanley level and sure enough, his new one was off by almost a full bubble over the length. The thing was dead out of the box. We had to pull all the nails and redo it, which cost us about two hours. Has anyone else had a new tool be that wrong right from the start? What's your go-to method for checking a level's accuracy before you trust it on a job?
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