What is the best color to paint your dish?

[PopcornNMore]

What is the best color to paint your dish. I have read that it must be a dark color that won't reflect sunlight to the LNBF. However, I have seen white dishes. I will probably paint my dish beige or gray, but haven't decided yet.

Plus would spray paint be best?

 

[PSB]

As long as its a non metalic paint then anything goes. I just painted my 40" Primestar Matt Black.......

 

[PopcornNMore]

Very nice Pete!

 

[Shawn95GT]

In my limited reading I think the big thing was that it wasn't a gloss paint. Of course the paint I used was a gloss. I shot over top of the gloss with a satin clear. We'll see if my LNB smokes.

 

[Mike500]

I like that new Krylon Fusion spray paint. It sticks to paint and that powder coating that is actually a plastic polymer.

Mine is painted in satin white.

 

[drhydro]

A friend of mine who is an artist wants to "camo" paint my BUD so that it will fit in the surrounding landscape better, but i wasnt going to let him because i was afraid it might cause problems. Now that i know it wont be detrimental if he is carefull not to use metallic paints, i am going to give him the go ahead.

 

[bnaivar]

I remember back in the 80's when everybody and his brother had a satellite store, there was actually one brand of dish that was made with metalflake paint. As the story goes, it was just supposed to be sold to dealers for display purposes, but since these dealers were just interested in moving product a bunch of them got sold to consumers.

 

[bryan27]

My KU Dish is light blue. The same exact color as the house

 

[Cascade]

I'm surprised nobody makes the mesh dishes for Ku over here, you can't turn your head without seeing them in the UK.

Pic

 

[PSB]

I agree, I paint all my dish matt black. Here is a picture of a satellite dish painted the same colour as the customers home.....

 

[Cascade]

I agree, I paint all my dish matt black. Here is a picture of a satellite dish painted the same colour as the customers home.....

I see no dish

I wonder if a mirror coating would be good camoflauge, I guess you'd have to be careful you don't blind some unlucky pilot with the reflection.

 

[PipeDream]

I think a good painted dish looks better and is less noticable than than the clear ones.

 

[Cascade]

I think a good painted dish looks better and is less noticable than than the clear ones.

Again, I see no dish

 

[lilyarbie]

nice pic pipedream

I like both the see-through dish and the chick in the picture.

 

[Digital Rain]

Just wish I could have both in my Yard

 

[sikma]

Again, I see no dish

I don't know about the rest of you, but I see a dish

 

[timmy1376]

I like that new Krylon Fusion spray paint. It sticks to paint and that powder coating that is actually a plastic polymer.

Mine is painted in satin white.

I got the black Krylon, and just now looking at it I notice it says gloss black. Will that work? I want it to be black, but I dont want the gloss to kill the signal. Any thoughts??

 

[ken2400]

Most dishs I have seen are flat gray. Don't know why?

I got the black Krylon, and just now looking at it I notice it says gloss black. Will that work? I want it to be black, but I dont want the gloss to kill the signal. Any thoughts??

 

[timmy1376]

I took it back and got the satin Krylon. It looks pretty good. I'll try to post some pictures in a bit.

 

[timmy1376]

Here are the pictures. It is not as shiny as it looks in the pictures.