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Question: Whats the Best non-metallic white car paint for a satellite dish?
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1147453" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Most of us in the UK would normally choose a Matt finish paint (to which I referred earlier), and I simply used a suitable spray <strong>primer</strong> as that is (almost?) always matt anyway, and never needed/wanted to use a gloss finish.</p><p></p><p>As for the "sun effects", we haven't <em>historically</em> had <em>really</em> strong sunshine very often in the UK because our lowest Latitude locations are only around 50N and LNB failure due to that cause is thus <em>relatively</em> rare <em>(most failures are probably either relatively early in the "bathtub curve" due to burn-in component failures, or late in the curve due general "old age" wearout)</em>, - although, maybe with global warming, that will become more common? OTOH, that's certainly a known issue further South in Europe.</p><p></p><p>PS: if anyone has not come across the "bathtub curve" then take a look <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve" target="_blank">here</a> on Wikipedia! <em>(BTW, I found out about that about 50 yrs ago in a job interview at Black & Decker in W. London - I didn't get the job<img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />)</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1147453, member: 176704"] Most of us in the UK would normally choose a Matt finish paint (to which I referred earlier), and I simply used a suitable spray [B]primer[/B] as that is (almost?) always matt anyway, and never needed/wanted to use a gloss finish. As for the "sun effects", we haven't [I]historically[/I] had [I]really[/I] strong sunshine very often in the UK because our lowest Latitude locations are only around 50N and LNB failure due to that cause is thus [I]relatively[/I] rare [I](most failures are probably either relatively early in the "bathtub curve" due to burn-in component failures, or late in the curve due general "old age" wearout)[/I], - although, maybe with global warming, that will become more common? OTOH, that's certainly a known issue further South in Europe. PS: if anyone has not come across the "bathtub curve" then take a look [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve']here[/URL] on Wikipedia! [I](BTW, I found out about that about 50 yrs ago in a job interview at Black & Decker in W. London - I didn't get the job:rolleyes:)[/I] [/QUOTE]
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