Can’t remove broken wine cooler from fitted kitchen unit housing

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Hi,
12 years ago we paid a firm to give us a new fitted kitchen. The wine cooler as supplied by them has now stopped working. We want to remove it from its very snug fitted kitchen slot so we can look to see if it is repairable or if not replace it. Currently when we tried to slide the unit out it is fouling on the floor tiles which have only been laid up to the kick board of the fitted units. The wine cooler cabinet sits on 4 adjustable legs with only the front two legs being currently accessible. Using a spanner we managed to lower these front two legs to as low as they will go but the unit still fouls on the tiles when we try to tilt it as much as is possible and slide it out. The tiles sit about 20mm up from the floor level the cooler is sitting on.

Short of ripping up the tiles is there anything else that can be done to slide out the unit. I have attached some photos which hopefully help to further explain the problem.
 

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So thanks for all the suggestions.

I tried lowering all 4 legs as far as they would go and the unit is still fouling on the tiles.

I tried raising one of the front legs to see if it would screw out completely but the cooler frame quickly began to foul on the underside of the worktop.

It looks like I am going to have to try and cut the legs off. They appear to be stainless steel bolts. I am using a 17mm spanner to turn the nuts threaded on to the bolt, see photo. I will try to hacksaw through the bolt which looks like it might be stainless steel. I was just wondering if there is a better way than a hacksaw of doing this
 

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