Friday Fun Poll:

[Anole]

I don't mean to be presumptuous, but it's been a while since we had one, and I just gotta know . . .

Have you ever mounted a dish with C-clamps? (pictures?)

I once took a small table into my back yard to work with.
It was a good place for the receiver and tools.
I had some big C clamps and blocks, so I bolted the dish to the table for my very earliest experiments.

Then, a few years ago, I took a dish to a buddy's house, to demonstrate it.
He had a six foot folding ladder. We C-clamped the pole's foot to the top and went for it!

Sorry, no pix.

 

[meinename]

Needed a quick mount for a 60cm to see what I could get when I was short on larger dishes.

One of the gates had 2 side-by-side fence posts.
I had previously thought about U-bolts for a bit, having no luck tracking down ones of appropriate size.

One day, family asked if there was anything to get from the shops and it struck me!
C-clamps! Cheap, easy to get and easy to use

Unfortunately, It's been taken down since it is in the LOS of the Direcway

 

[DJ Rob]

I had a metal railing around my balcony at my old apartment. C-clamps worked great to clamp a couple of dishes to it.

 

[Tron]

Unless you are referring to (C)onduit clamps, naw

BTW, conduit clamps are also great for a variety of applications!

 

[brentb636]

I had a tripod mount with a 80cm motorized dish on it, for playing around. The tripod was screwed to a pallet and the pallet C-clamped to my deck. I had 3 decks at the old house, so I could put it most anywhere.

 

[RVD420]

C- clamps no.

12 inch bar clamps...yes

cement blocks and plywood also work for a quickie mounting system

 

[GreatFTA]

Well, I use a C clamp on the pole to keep the dish from sliding down while adjusting the dish left and right for signal.

 

[Mr Tony]

yes...including pics

test rig

 

[Larry1]

I have not used C clamps, but did lean my dish up to a lawn chair to get G10r before it was mounted. Have also used those spring clamps Like in Icebergs pics as well.
So how do I vote...I have not used C clamps, but have used the spring clamps. (I said YES because they were still clamps)...sorry no pics.

 

[HIFI]

when camping,I used to clamp it to the pickup bed rail!

 

[rv1pop]

"C clamps", no, but as others mentioned, I put "YEA" as I used bar clamps. Is there any other way while on the road?

No pictures at this time that I can pull up but I have used the bar clamps in over 20 states!

 

[Anole]

Is there a federal law against that?
Running bar clamps across state lines? -

 

[skysurfer]

not c-clamps but brackets to hold a ring-mount 4.5' dish to a piece of plywood and now some 2x4's I strung as a platform.

I"ll have to see if I can take and post pics...

 

[Cadsulfide]

When I was installing for Dish, every spring when the migrant workers arrived, I aimed a ton of Dish 500's mounted on 5 gal pails full of cement.