I ended up retrieving a 10 foot (I think.. it might be 9) M/A-Com C-band mesh dish. Cant beat the price of free with a dead horse, so I took it down for the guy and just needs some minor refurbishing.
The dish has alot of steel hardware that has rusted up, I am working on removing all of this to replace them. I will also go thru and repaint the entire dish, although it is mostly in good shape. I have all of the mesh panels, but two of them are a little twisted on the edges, so I will have to flatten them back out before reinstalling them.
One thing that concerns me is the LNB mount, there is a single aluminium pole coming out of the middle, that mounts directly into the feedhorn.. You can see it in the photos, that pole goes clear into the center of the scalar ring.. how does the signal pass thru this, and will it cause problems with a C/Ku feedhorn?
I am thinking I will have to fabricate mounting arms to the sides of the dish, instead of dead center like now.
I find it amusing that the motor used stainless hardware, but the mount itself is rusting, while the dish has no rust at all, and used non-stainless hardware
I cant seem to find any information on this particular dish, or this motor, it looks like a H-H motor on steroids
I want to mount this thing up, but I cant dig a hole easily that my roommates will be happy with, I will probably have to fabricate a non penetrating mount with a palate and cinderblocks, then take the dish down during bad weather.
The dish itself only weighs about 100lbs, so I can take it down myself, but the motor nearly weighs as much as the dish, probably a good 80lbs or so!
The dish has alot of steel hardware that has rusted up, I am working on removing all of this to replace them. I will also go thru and repaint the entire dish, although it is mostly in good shape. I have all of the mesh panels, but two of them are a little twisted on the edges, so I will have to flatten them back out before reinstalling them.
One thing that concerns me is the LNB mount, there is a single aluminium pole coming out of the middle, that mounts directly into the feedhorn.. You can see it in the photos, that pole goes clear into the center of the scalar ring.. how does the signal pass thru this, and will it cause problems with a C/Ku feedhorn?
I am thinking I will have to fabricate mounting arms to the sides of the dish, instead of dead center like now.
I find it amusing that the motor used stainless hardware, but the mount itself is rusting, while the dish has no rust at all, and used non-stainless hardware
I cant seem to find any information on this particular dish, or this motor, it looks like a H-H motor on steroids
I want to mount this thing up, but I cant dig a hole easily that my roommates will be happy with, I will probably have to fabricate a non penetrating mount with a palate and cinderblocks, then take the dish down during bad weather.
The dish itself only weighs about 100lbs, so I can take it down myself, but the motor nearly weighs as much as the dish, probably a good 80lbs or so!
