Vintage Alignment Systems

Darter6 said

I worked in a shop with a Beam Visualiner. Told the boss several times that they needed a calibration.
Yep, I was told "It don't matter once they hit the first pot hole." Poor excuse in my book.
I was young and wanted to do the job right.

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When I first got out of the Navy in the early 80's one of the jobs I had was at a gas station... The whole side wall at one end of the shop was glass... They had just installed a brand new Hunter Light Align system... They were proud of their new equipment so they had it installed by the windows.... Only problem is it's a "Light" align system & wouldn't read right if there was to much light.... The old guy who was hired for doing alignments hated that machine... Brought in his personal set of magnetic snap gauges...

The light align system was supposed to replace the old "Line Align" system that used strings.... I saw Line Align systems still on use as recent as five years ago.... Sometimes the old stuff just works....