Good uses for old dishes.

papalittle

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Some old corn field, United States

• Sep 25, 2011

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Anybody got other pictures?

 

MikeD-C05

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• Sep 25, 2011

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That's funny. What else could you use an old sat dish for?

 

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cbreton

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• Sep 25, 2011

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Target practice!

 

Dishman1978

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• Sep 25, 2011

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MikeD-C05 said:

That's funny. What else could you use an old sat dish for?

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Spray paint one side red whit blue with a star, pretend u are captain america

 

mikethedishguy

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Where roadkill is plentifill

• Sep 25, 2011

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When one of my kids was in 7th grade I gave her science teacher D500 he used it to heat his lunch and cook a burger durring his lunch break, it worked so well he asked for a super dish covered it with mylar placed a platform at the end of the arm and can now cook 2 burgers or a box of Mac and cheese.

 

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Chavez

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• Sep 25, 2011

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How about sledding?

 

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TalonDancer

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FWIW the WildBlue dishes make better bird baths. They are bigger, the mount is more adjustable, and configuring them as a bird bath transforms them from almost useless to useful*

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* as a opposed to using them for say internet access. WildBlue - the last resort for bandwidth in the boonies.

 

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jbmiller

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• Sep 26, 2011

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amateur radio ops uses 10 foot dishes to bounce signals off the moon back to earth for communications.
john

 

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sneerboy

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• Sep 26, 2011

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omg the perfect place for a picture I'll take as soon as it's light! Wait for it lol

 

papalittle

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Some old corn field, United States

• Sep 26, 2011

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cbreton said:

Target practice!

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This is one thing I do with old dishes, I just spray paint targets on them and off to the river I go. I do bring them back home to the recycle bin.

 

sneerboy

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• Sep 26, 2011

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As promised, my neighbors' gazebo.

 

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TheKrell

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• Sep 26, 2011

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I give up. Where are the old dishes in the gazebo? The roof?

 

sneerboy

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TheKrell said:

I give up. Where are the old dishes in the gazebo? The roof?

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si, sigh, sneer

 

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Mr Tony

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• Sep 26, 2011

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thats disturbing. You ruined a perfectly good C-Band dish for the roof

 

whatchel1

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• Sep 26, 2011

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good one

sneerboy said:

As promised, my neighbors' gazebo.

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That's Laux Beta 9 installed some of those. Good C/Ku dishes but pretty heavy. Excellent Gazebo.

 

whatchel1

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• Sep 26, 2011

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true but

Iceberg said:

thats disturbing. You ruined a perfectly good C-Band dish for the roof

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That's true that it was a great C/Ku dish but many aren't used any more and at least it is not in the dump.

 

sneerboy

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Iceberg said:

thats disturbing. You ruined a perfectly good C-Band dish for the roof

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My neighbor did, yes. My 10 ft BUD is still lying in my yard.

 

KazooGuy

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• Sep 26, 2011

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I took my old 12 foot Paraclipse dish to the metal recyclers and got $75.00!

 

gokartergo

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• Sep 27, 2011

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It's not a dish.. But it is the mount.. Customer said it was strong.. But I wasn't about to touch it..

 

bgsmallwood

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• Sep 27, 2011

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Here is one idea I'd like to try:

 

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