Besides the Winegard 10' C-band dish that was rescued last month (with repairs ongoing)...
Picked up a Direct and Dish dish that were set out during city cleanup week. The Dish dish was in decent shape. The Direct slimline was beat up, but grabbed it anyhow (along with an 80's F-150 hubcap). If nothing else, I can salvage some of the stainless hardware as well as have a spare mount.
Then recovered a Wild Blue dish that was destined for scrap. I already have a Wild Blue that is used for 30W, but the current one is in pretty bad shape even after repairs. So I'm thinking I'll swap out my homemade LNBF holder from the old dish and see if the "new" dish is any better.
On the left side of the photo are the better of the recent recover with Winegard parts scattered about. The large dish toward the front of the trailer was the most recent recovery...
As for the large dish, a local gas station and convenience store in town was being torn down. The gas pumps and awning structure were already gone and the main building looked close to being razed. So last Friday, I stopped and asked the crew inside of what remained of the convenience store about the dish on the roof.
They directed me to the foreman from the construction company. He said I could get it, but that it would need to be done before 10:00 am. It was 8:30 when I asked, so told work I was taking some annual leave and rushed back to the house. Grabbed tools and an extension ladder and headed back to the C-store.
Here's the dish on what was left of the building:
Right at an hour later, had the dish, NPRM and concrete blocks loaded up and was back at work. Probably the most difficult part of the job was loading the 12 CMU's into the truck...
Later that day, the corrugated roof was being stripped off the C-store. Drove by again on Tuesday and there was a mound of dirt with a trackhoe sitting where the C-store had been.
A few photos of the rescued dish...
Before cleaning:
The worst I've noticed off this dish:
After a bit of scrubbing:
Picked up a Direct and Dish dish that were set out during city cleanup week. The Dish dish was in decent shape. The Direct slimline was beat up, but grabbed it anyhow (along with an 80's F-150 hubcap). If nothing else, I can salvage some of the stainless hardware as well as have a spare mount.
Then recovered a Wild Blue dish that was destined for scrap. I already have a Wild Blue that is used for 30W, but the current one is in pretty bad shape even after repairs. So I'm thinking I'll swap out my homemade LNBF holder from the old dish and see if the "new" dish is any better.
On the left side of the photo are the better of the recent recover with Winegard parts scattered about. The large dish toward the front of the trailer was the most recent recovery...
As for the large dish, a local gas station and convenience store in town was being torn down. The gas pumps and awning structure were already gone and the main building looked close to being razed. So last Friday, I stopped and asked the crew inside of what remained of the convenience store about the dish on the roof.
They directed me to the foreman from the construction company. He said I could get it, but that it would need to be done before 10:00 am. It was 8:30 when I asked, so told work I was taking some annual leave and rushed back to the house. Grabbed tools and an extension ladder and headed back to the C-store.
Here's the dish on what was left of the building:
Right at an hour later, had the dish, NPRM and concrete blocks loaded up and was back at work. Probably the most difficult part of the job was loading the 12 CMU's into the truck...
Later that day, the corrugated roof was being stripped off the C-store. Drove by again on Tuesday and there was a mound of dirt with a trackhoe sitting where the C-store had been.
A few photos of the rescued dish...
Before cleaning:
The worst I've noticed off this dish:
After a bit of scrubbing:
