WANTED KU band WR75 Elbow

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Anybody got a spare KU band wr-75 elbow I could use on a Pansat ortho feedhorn to connect a KU lnb so that it would extend UP instead of out one side of the feedhorn?

If so, let me know what you need for it, free/cash/Paypal or maybe trade of something?
 
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Yes it's what I thought. I stumbled into that same thing with a Ku ortho feed I put on an old PrimeStar dish. The feed came with a vertical bent elbow so the LNBs pointed down and away but I was thinking to put the original LNB cover on the dish and needed both LNBs to point straight back like you have with yours.

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Yes it's what I thought. I stumbled into that same thing with a Ku ortho feed I put on an old PrimeStar dish. The feed came with a vertical bent elbow so the LNBs pointed down and away but I was thinking to put the original LNB cover on the dish and needed both LNBs to point straight back like you have with yours.

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You'd think that with the cost of that feed, they'd have included an elbow. Well, guess I wait to see if Radioguy confirms which way his is, though it seems from the photo, it would have to be vertical instead of the needed horizontal.
 
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Another thing to consider is how it attaches to the feed. In your case you need the elbow to have one set of threaded holes.
IF I find one with the right orientation, yet it isn't threaded, couldn't I use slightly longer bolts, and just put nuts on from the other side of the flange? The feed flange holes are very accessible on the other side, though it may be hard to tell that from my dark photos of this morning.

I won't be putting this feed up before getting my 10 foot dish in place of the 7.5ft that's now there, and it seems I may have waited a bit too late in the year to get it done before it's all bad weather. It's been bad weather for well over a week and 1/2 already. Raining and high winds the whole time. I did though get the 10ft dish rehabbed, and the actuator is fixed and working.
 
IF I find one with the right orientation, yet it isn't threaded, couldn't I use slightly longer bolts, and just put nuts on from the other side of the flange? The feed flange holes are very accessible on the other side, though it may be hard to tell that from my dark photos of this morning.

I won't be putting this feed up before getting my 10 foot dish in place of the 7.5ft that's now there, and it seems I may have waited a bit too late in the year to get it done before it's all bad weather. It's been bad weather for well over a week and 1/2 already. Raining and high winds the whole time. I did though get the 10ft dish rehabbed, and the actuator is fixed and working.
I imagine that might work. I think the elbow I have came from a Wild Blue dish setup.
 
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IF I find one with the right orientation, yet it isn't threaded, couldn't I use slightly longer bolts, and just put nuts on from the other side of the flange? The feed flange holes are very accessible on the other side, though it may be hard to tell that from my dark photos of this morning.

I won't be putting this feed up before getting my 10 foot dish in place of the 7.5ft that's now there, and it seems I may have waited a bit too late in the year to get it done before it's all bad weather. It's been bad weather for well over a week and 1/2 already. Raining and high winds the whole time. I did though get the 10ft dish rehabbed, and the actuator is fixed and working.
One more thing to consider: Is the signal loss created by the LNB shadow greater than the signal loss you get using the elbow? I think not.
 

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