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I have baby gates across the bedroom door to keep Shadow separated from Beeper.
The bottom two gates are swing-out style and have two lugs on the door-frame that accept pins on the door.
The top gate has always been difficult to get closed, but the bottom one has always been fine.
I used the provided template to place the lugs, so I assumed it was some kind of tolerance stack-up problem with the gates themselves.
Swapping them top to bottom helped a lot. The bottom one was noticeably tighter, but still worked correctly. The top one got looser, but still bound up on the top lug.
So I measured the fit between the lugs and pins on the bottom gate and replicated that on the top.
It amounted to lowering the top lug about 1/8".
Then I measured between the lugs and they now match!
Somehow I got the top lug 1/8" too high when I mounted them initially.
Worse, I replicated this mistake when I lowered the top gate to narrow the gap to allow it to become the middle gate.
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