Dish paint

[bearfootedfox]

Do i paint my dish (8ft)with any type of flat paint or a special type of paint? The dish was put in about 1986.

 

[phlatwound]

Special paint is not necessary.

 

[FaT Air]

Water based latex paint doesn't stick that well to fiberglass or metal. Enamels or epoxy are the longest 'living' IMHO. You doing something special like camouflage or a large Smiley Face?

 

[bearfootedfox]

Water based latex paint doesn't stick that well to fiberglass or metal. Enamels or epoxy are the longest 'living' IMHO. You doing something special like camouflage or a large Smiley Face?

No the dish faded over the years, but that something to really think about,I do like the ideas.thanks very much.

 

[KE4EST]

Paint you a beautiful mural of some sort on it and then show us the pics.

 

[Cosmo Blatz]

Just make sure you get the color right.

White or black for C-Band (grey for a Paraclipse)
Only Grey is allowed for Ku Band

 

[primestar31]

Just make sure you get the color right.

White or black for C-Band (grey for a Paraclipse)
Only Grey is allowed for Ku Band

ANY neutral color is fine. As long as it doesn't reflect enough sunlight to fry your lnb. I have never seen a BLACK dish, and I wouldn't recommend that paint color due to heat absorption and possible dish breakdown.

 

[FaT Air]

I have never seen a BLACK dish

Come on, there's plenty of those black mesh BUD's. MOF, thinking of painting my Channel Master offset dishes flat black, to 'match' the black mesh BUD they are in front of.

 

[phlatwound]

Yeh, tons of black BUDs, Unimesh for one (brand). Seen a lot of black Ku dishes too, some of the "Bob Jones" models...and maybe SatAv's offsets also?

 

[bearfootedfox]

GREAT,I have now great ideas from all of yous,I'm sure glad i found this site. and sticken to it. thanks very much!!!

 

[ynnedibanez]

black absorbs tons of heat, and dishes point south (+or-)
i would bet fibreglass would warp under such heat.
and on the other side of things, if the dish is too reflective, it can bake your lnb. (think solar oven)

 

[primestar31]

Come on, there's plenty of those black mesh BUD's. MOF, thinking of painting my Channel Master offset dishes flat black, to 'match' the black mesh BUD they are in front of.

I meant BLACK fiberglass dishes...

 

[Joe DC]

Black will help melt ice/snow in the winter on metal dishes. Would not go darker than neutral gray for fiberglass dishes.

 

[Vondertrenk]

And darker color not only help met ice/snow in winter but all year round abosrbes more light protecting LNBs from sun "tanning".

 

[danristheman]

Metal dishes black, or any color thats non reflective. Fiberglass dish same expect for black.