Alignment issues

[AlwayzLearnin]

My ST turned up today and not only does it have the built in alignment dots available, it also lines up 100% square to them.

Maybe I was lucky, or maybe they have fixed the issue in the last few years.

[mikestuewe]

its interesting that so many people are having the same issue, and I am too. Its not just that the lasers are misaligned to the front of the case, its that they all require the case to point to the right to have the lasers down the line. other than alwayzlearnin above, everyone seems to have the same issue of pointing to the right. you would think if it were an issue with a tolerance of the lasers, you'd have more inconsistency.

[MysteryV]

Seems to me it's likely tolerance stack up in addition to tooling design or wear.

Have folks had success sending their units in for re-alignment?

[SkyTrak_Seth]

It's been stated before that the laser dots were originally intended for ball placement only. In a "dream world", those laser dots would be so precise that you could use them for alignment. But as we all have seen, manufacturing tolerances allow for the dots to not line up to square (even though they work just fine for ball placement, as mm don't matter in that regard). That's why I always recommend to use alignment sticks to properly align the unit. Alignment mode was never an intended use of the lasers per the hardware manufacturer which is why I tried to remove it altogether, but you all wanted it back, so I tucked it away in the device leveling screen - at this point, it's kind of a YMMV thing. To me personally (and assuming they were perfectly aligned) , it would really make the most sense if you could have both lasers on while hitting, but it's just not possible with the image capture technology.