When I built the "Exer-desk", I had several things to juggle.
The desk needed to be high enough for the exercise bike to fit under.
The desk needed to be at the right height for me to comfortably type while sitting on the bike saddle.
The desk needed to be at the right height so that the monitors end up in a comfortable position.
The desk (and the bike) needed to be low enough for me to not bump my head on the (low) ceiling in my attic office.
The desk needed to be (somewhat) level despite any variation in length of the (hand cut) legs.
Given all of those variables, I decided the only thing to do was to make the desk with adjustable feet.
I measured things out and calculated what I thought would be the correct length, then made the feet with an adjustable range of just less than four inches (10 centimeters.)
As it turned out, the legs are almost perfectly the same length and the lowest end of the adjustment is the perfect height. If I'd have known I was that good, I could have just made them the right length and been done with it. Oh, well.
On the off chance that someone else may need to build adjustable feet for a desk or table, here's how I made mine.
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