I tilt the whole stand back with a jack and all of the 3 Fframes in the super had honey n them. I would assume the channels were full to the forward tilt of the hive so when I tilted it back the level came to the top of the channel at the back. Made a bit of a mess down the back of the box when fitting the tubes. The other hive on the stand was fine but those bees have tended to make thicker honey.
I was thinking that perhaps the temperature fluctuations caused the honey to expand or the wax to crack in some cells causing leakage but that doesnât explain why the other hive didnât do the same I sâposeâŚ
@JeffH, I manifold two frames at a time and like to leave the tubes in until no more honey is coming out after the frames are reset. Itâs left tilted, albeit less than the harvest tilt, for a few days. Saturday was a warm day and the honey flowed quickly so from cracking the first portion to reset took about half an hour. Technically, from start to finish it does take me a few days. 
No sign of leaks btw.
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Hi @skeggley
The only thing I can think of, is that the frames perhaps flexed a little on removal for inspection, and being thinner honey, leaked into the channel. You probably didnât need to remove for inspection or if you did, didnât flex the frames - so that would discount that theory. I suppose (depending on when it leaked) there is a chance that the honey that leaked honey wasnât dried? Was it watery? I have two hives with the solid floor and one with the Flow floor - I think now I would inspect the channel with a torch from time to time if I had a Flow frames on the solid floor hives. I guess the Flow frames werenât designed to be used without the Flow base?