C-band Back in the Day...

[stogie5150]

Here's two pics I found of our family's dish circa 1981-1985. 10 foot Fiberglass with a hand crank....wish I woulda taken pics of the back of the dish....

Check out the LNB assembly...they made it EASY to adjust! :up

 

[dfergie]

Thats about the exact same setup as my 10' from same era... (replaced LNA with LNB, and hand crank with motor)

 

[FaT Air]

I always marveled at the ingenuity of the ones with the TV ant rotator for skew.

 

[phlatwound]

Cool pics, Stog. I never thought of mounting a feed assembly like that, kind of like a backwards buttonhook arrangement.

 

[crackt]

much appreciated stogie. you just gave me the simplest solution to a problem i had with a project. to bad its to late to get into the shop. haha.

crackt out,.

 

[stogie5150]

I have the damndest ideas sometimes.....I still have the dish itself, in pieces, behind my Mom's house, the pole, and half of the mount. I think I might try and bring the beast back to life....stay tuned.

 

[Mr Tony]

very cool pics stogie

 

[stogie5150]

I dug it out of the woods this morning....no mount though, or LNB supports... BIG pictures...be aware dial-up guys...

I added the name tag pic....Satellite Earth Station Mamou LA, and a couple phone numbers....LONG disconnected I am sure...LOL

 

[gabshere]

depends on what you are wanting to use it for. Ground mount it for a one satellite test dish and it looks like the brackets to hold the support arms are there ... point it at a sat with dvb-s2 and try it lets see if the old fiberglass dinosaur can draw in a signal.

 

[dfergie]

Mine is laid over (mount broke due to wind stress & my temp fix broke also)... will have to take some pics

 

[stogie5150]

And after much cleaning....looks much better. Still some staining but I don't think its anything some primer and paint won't cover...

Now...what color....Safety Yellow?

 

[turbosat]

Stogie "The Great New American Picker!" LOL
cleans up nicely-I bet it comes out working ok.

 

[gabshere]

pickle green , anole green ??

 

[Anole]

pickle green , anole green ??

I was thinking maybe some sort of stencil so you could cover the dish with green leaves.
That'll make it yard-friendly; it'll look like a tree from a distance. -
THEN, you use a different shade of green, and paint in a dozen or so anoles.
It'd be a Where's Waldo for all the neighborhood kids.
Attached is a sample (sent to me by a member here, who may care to claim it if he wishes! ) -

 

[Mr Tony]

Do yellow with a big smiley face on it

 

[stogie5150]

Well I can tell you what DOESN'T work. And that is spraying latex out of a regular spraygun. My dish looks like a gray orange. I used flowtrol, and thinned and thinned and thinned....just didn't paint well. I may roll it with some other paint to cover it and smooth it out...


EDIT: Added a couple pics....the one panel is the best of the four, the closeup is of the worst one....

 

[gabshere]

lets just put a SKIN on it ..... let me go pick out a big ole Razorback

 

[stogie5150]

lets just put a SKIN on it ..... let me go pick out a big ole Razorback

a 10-foot skin? You been in the sun too long G-man...LOL

 

[Anole]

I dunno,, give 'er a light sanding...
... and shoot another coat!

And remember, nobody ever sees these things up close anyway!

edit:
SKIN.!.?. That'd take one the size of a bedsheet!
Though, I'm not sure a King-sized would cover it!

 

[turbosat]

I'm with the green one>nobody will notice from a distance, that first panel looks super, the 'bad' one, doubt it'll stand out very much from a few feet. I saw a VW bug one time that two drunk teenagers stole and painted with brushes, now THAT was a bad paint job, lol.