The alignment process indeed took quite a long time to complete. Rachel found that it was near-impossible to do it by hand, and was forced to add some protrusions into the main chamber where she had another mirrored coating applied to the rods.
After four hours of painful work, the alignment process was completed. The laser bounced around the main chamber quite a few times, before exiting through one of the passages out to the main ring.
"Halfway done, now all we need is the sensors to be positioned, and the electronics strand which i'll order pre-assembled.."
Standing up, brushing her pants off, she heads for the exit of the lab. She was exhausted. Sleep sounds excellent right about now.