Painting Dishes...

[SandFarmer]

My once beautiful black glossy & whatever dish has now faded and the surface is rough enough that snow readly sticks to it. What makes me bring this up is an orange dish that I saw for up for grabs that was concidered vandalized and unusable. I was told by a "training installer" that had his face 6" from it told me you can easily paint them with no problem. Or can you wrap 'em?

So can a dish be painted and still be functional? I have a 1K2 & 500 that needs it badly.

I would like to do: "I'm with Stupid >" "< I'm with Stupid". Or the gray the dish uses but high gloss so the snow slides off.

Thanks for any info.

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[arlo]

I've painted a few with automotive paints. Not glossy but with a satin finish. You don't want a glossy finish focusing the sun into the LNBF. And gloss paints will do that.
Last winter I tried a spray from Home Depot used to coat snow blowers that keeps snow from sticking on my big dish. I sprayed it on in the fall and wiped a few coats in with a rag. It worked pretty good. I hope snow season is about over.

 

[NYDutch]

A fellow at our last RV park painted his DTV dish with satin finish paints in a camo pattern. When he set it up in front of some bushes, it really worked quite well if you didn't know it was there. The rattle cans were ordinary Rust-Oleum colors, and the reception was not changed at all.

 

[pattykay]

What makes me bring this up is an orange dish that I saw for up for grabs that was concidered vandalized and unusable.

Hey, that was mine!

https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/orange-dish-1000-2.388874/

 

[SandFarmer]

Hey, that was mine!

https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/orange-dish-1000-2.388874/

Yes, it was and thank you for the reminder that was something I was going to look into ages ago. But haven't.

And everyone else thanks for the info. I was planning on using matte/semi gloss Rustoleum. And have that snowblower spray. Sno-Flo, it works great on my blower. This last time we had snow issues, we just flipped over to OTT.

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