New to FTA since June 2014, My Dish Farm & FTA Project.

[Christopher Cromwell]

@Titanium, ok. It didnt look like that adapter would support the weight of the dish anyway. Where I live, the elevation of the dish will be 44 degrees which is up quite a ways from the nearest wall or roof. I probably need no longer than 3 feet of pole. Lowes has a 6 foot galvanized pole at 2.5 inch diameter. So I will get that shortly. Like you said, I can't do much more until the dish arrives. I dont intend to put a motor on it, the motor wouldn't last long on a dish that size, even though they say it can do it.

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[KE4EST]

You can get motors for dishes that size. Look up STAB HH120
But no I would not try putting a motor on a set-up like that, just asking for heartache.

 

[Christopher Cromwell]

@ke4est, yeah, I am already putting alot of extra weight and stress on the roof mount as it is without a motor.

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[Christopher Cromwell]

3 foot long 2.5 inch diameter galvanized steel pipe to go over the existing j-pole. Will this work better?

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[Christopher Cromwell]

I cut the pole down to half of what it was, this should still be plenty long enough, just have to drill holes and run bolts through hopefully.

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[Christopher Cromwell]

Well, that didnt work. Drilled holes through the pipe, run the bolt through, tightened it, the whole thing was looser than a drunk goose!! Back to Lowes a third time to get back the U-Bolts. :-/

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[Christopher Cromwell]

Plenty aggravated at least, I dont think I can find 2.5 inch wide U-Bolts.

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[Titanium]

Snap a photo of the bolt holes. Top and bottom bolts at 90 degrees from each other and the center bolt at 45 degrees will lock it place. You did go with a larger pole to sleeve than we recommended, so you might add a 4th bolt in the center on the opposite 45 degree.

Your getting solid advice. The guys on this forum(including myself) have installed thousands of dishes over the years, so it isn't like you are alone and reinventing the wheel.

Final post on this thread. just going to watch the ship sail....

 

[Christopher Cromwell]

@Titanium, yes, I will apologize, never mind my last post, my wife said the same thing. I should have put more bolts in, but its pretty difficult to drill through that metal where I am situated.

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[primestar31]

Plenty aggravated at least, I dont think I can find 2.5 inch wide U-Bolts.

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Sure you can, only they are called "Muffler Clamps", lol

 

[jorgek]

Make sure the muffler clamps are rust proof.

 

[Christopher Cromwell]

@Titanium: Oh, you meant i should do it this way. As you correctly mentioned it does lock the larger pipe in place.

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[Christopher Cromwell]

Bad news now is, its off level in two directions, so I will have to compensate for that in my elevation and LNB skew. Nothing much I can do about the off level now, pushing it doesn't help.

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[Christopher Cromwell]

Maybe the weight of the dish will help level it more forward some.

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[Christopher Cromwell]

Looks like this, that's about all I can do for it, until more items arrive. I need a shower.

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[Titanium]

Yes, drilling and bolting at an angle would take the post out of plumb. No worries since you are not mounting a motor. Just add subtract a few degrees here and there...

I drill and bolt on horizontal axis. Here is an image looking top down:

So much for standing on the rail and watching the ship sail! LOL!!!

 

[Christopher Cromwell]

@Titanium: ok, I can take that angle bolt back out, check the level, and try to redrill level at an angle. I have another bolt left I can try another way. Its supposed to be stormy here tomorrow, will see if I can get to it or not.

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[Titanium]

Wouldn't worry about it now. This will just will add a third axis to the dish aiming. Adds some excitement to each re-aim!

 

[Christopher Cromwell]

@Titanium, or like you said, I can also just leave well enough alone, and compensate the elevation and skew, which is no big deal for me since I'm not mounting a motor. I dont know if my Manhattan receiver will support two motors.

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[Christopher Cromwell]

@Titanium: with a 30lb dish going on that roof mount, it should help level it some.

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