Recent content by arlo

Heim Joint.

A good soaking in penetrating oil. Some raps with a hammer. A heat with a torch and quench and more p. oil never hurts. Wiggle-wiggle!

I'm always on this. A protective measure. Remove the gearbox first and see if you can turn the actuator shaft by hand. Then power the motor (count the output shaft turns so you can reverse the motor leads and get it back where you started). Doing so will keep you from powering the motor in a...

one_db looks on top of it. 12g landscaping power cable from Home Depot, Lowes, etc. will do for actuator power at quite a distance. Box store coax bugs me. Although all of the amplification of the signal is done at the lnbf. And pushes a good signal that is easily handled by 3 GHz coax. I would...

Menawhile in the USA where precision machined parabolic masters are used.... But.....you do have to give the other guys credit. So eager to go to work they are still in their pj's and bedroom slippers. And thrifty too. Who needs a cleaning crew when it's just going to get filthy again. Right...

From living in Florida. Where ants love anything electrical. They get into outdoor ac disconnects and the electrical enclosures. Same thing with outdoor pump electrics. Getting between contactor points, pressure switch contacts. And....*zap*. Lizards turning into nasty, stinking "Old Sparky"...

I'd have to roll my pant legs up a few if accepting the phrase optical fiber cable has a finite lifetime. The bare aluminum aerial cable that was installed back in the late 80's and early 90's here by the former Adelphia and now Zitomedia mess surely is on its last legs. Out in the wind and snow...

This post seems to be all over the place. A good thing. Just a lot of reading and stuff. My area has pots still with some subs still using it. I gave mine up over 10 years ago. Although when and if I were to hook a phone up to a jack and lift the handset. I get a 'click'. And that click means...

In the winter I can get 131W pretty well. When spring comes and the leaves come back.....nope. Wouldn't an ag drone with a batch of defoliant be too cool right about now?

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I kind of told you not to even try to apply voltage to the motor without taking it apart. You might be surprised that a little elbow grease and thought will make it work. It's been in the weather for a billion years. If you can't turn the bronze gear attached to the armature on the motor...

Whoa, Nelly! For satellite usage, the vbox variants are the only kid in town. Reed switch sensors might be used because it's cheap and simple. If water poured out of the gearbox. Sorry. Nothing short of a complete teardown would be my next step. Motor, gears. Now. If that seems over your level...

Never one to throw out potentially usable stuff. Telstar kind of hit a bone. If it makes sense at all. If you can get the gearbox and actuator tube running good. Seeing that a potentiometer is in fact a positive feedback device that would provide an ancient dish mover without memory storage a...

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Titanium. My belief would be that since the effort to enlarge the hole with whatever method is derived. And then fabricating a fixture method to mount an lnbf. A simple scalar swap would be more appropriate. And the original scalar could be retained for a rainy day. What does one of yours cost...