Analogue dish collar clamps

skydish · 07-10-2009

Are the old analogue sky dish collor clamps good for modern LNB's? (As i've mentioned before I am planning to re-use one for 28.2E)

**Analoguesat** · 07-10-2009

Minidish lnb's are optimised for the oval minidish design.

Whilst it would work ok with the strong Astra2 signals it will be something less than optimal on a weak signal as it will not pick up full illumination.

Thats the theory anyway - you never know what will work for you

skydish · 07-10-2009

Hmm... I guess i'll just have to see if the universal quad I am getting from Ebay

will fit on the 80cm dish I am going to rescue from the back of my friends house. (before it goes in a skip!)
Sorry for straying off topic...

***Tivù*** · 07-10-2009

Originally Posted by skydish

Hmm... I guess i'll just have to see if the universal quad I am getting from Ebay will fit on the 80cm dish I am going to rescue from the back of my friends house. (before it goes in a skip!)
Sorry for straying off topic...

It should do if you burr off the ridges around where the collar will go.

No problemo!

skydish · 07-10-2009

Oh right, thanks, do you think I will get a decent signal in comparison to the minidish?

***Tivù*** · 07-10-2009

Originally Posted by skydish

Oh right, thanks, do you think I will get a decent signal in comparison to the minidish?

Stonking

skydish · 07-10-2009

Fantastic!

**Analoguesat** · 07-10-2009

Ive split this off the other topic as it deserves its own discussion :

skydish · 07-10-2009

Originally Posted by Analoguesat

Ive split this off the other topic as it deserves its own discussion :

Yeah and one I am very interested in, I am hoping that I can fit the quad onto the 80cm dish and run 6 feeds off it, 2 for sky+ in the lounge and a single feed each for the 4 bedrooms, with the larger dish I hope to gain a better signal strength and less viewing disruption in bad weather.
All this will happen once I have taken the dish off my friends house and restored it, which should be soon.

**Analoguesat** · 07-10-2009

A quad wont work if you want 6 feeds! You will need an octo if you want just the one dish

**Analoguesat** · 07-10-2009

Make sure you spray all the clamp bolts with wd40 a couple of days before you want to do any work on the dish & dont be afraid to hacksaw through anything rusted solid!

Bolts can be replaced easily enough

skydish · 07-10-2009

The LNB I have seen has 6 feeds, not sure what its called so I just referred to it as a quad, Lol, Yes I will use WD40, I plan to replace all the bolts and screws etc anyway so I will probably be getting the hacksaw out.

**rolfw** · 07-10-2009

I have never seen, nor heard of a 6 feed LNB, have you got a link to it?

If you have, disable it by putting an underscore before the HTTP like so: _http.www

skydish · 07-10-2009

I've just looked and it actually has 8 feeds and is indeed called an octo. Bonus!

***Tivù*** · 07-10-2009

Originally Posted by skydish

I've just looked and it actually has 8 feeds and is indeed called an octo. Bonus!

Just as well this is effectively a new installation, then - Octos are moderately heavy compared to a single and can flex the arm down a tiny bit.

Although the old "Analogue" dish probably has a tubular arm so is inherently rigid as compared to the rectangular section of a Toydish, you'd still have had to take this into account for a retrofit.

But as it isn't a retrofit, it'll all come out in the wash when you align the Dish anyway.

skydish · 07-10-2009

Originally Posted by Tivù

Just as well this is effectively a new installation, then - Octos are moderately heavy compared to a single and can flex the arm down a tiny bit.

Although the old "Analogue" dish probably has a tubular arm so is inherently rigid as compared to the rectangular section of a Toydish, you'd still have had to take this into account for a retrofit.

But as it isn't a retrofit, it'll all come out in the wash when you align the Dish anyway.

Luckily the dish is one that has support arms coming down from either side of the dish and connects with the end of the LNB arm, so hopefully I should get away with that. Lol

***Tivù*** · 07-10-2009

Originally Posted by skydish

Luckily the dish is one that has support arms coming down from either side of the dish and connects with the end of the LNB arm, so hopefully I should get away with that. Lol

Nice. That'll stop the end of the arm being displaced in moderate winds.

**Channel Hopper** · 07-10-2009

Originally Posted by skydish

Luckily the dish is one that has support arms coming down from either side of the dish and connects with the end of the LNB arm, so hopefully I should get away with that. Lol

Then you have a real ancient one. Check the reflector has no signs of severe reflector corrosion. If it is a solid white dish then tap the back all round to check for internal damage.

skydish · 07-10-2009

It was new in 1992, looks sound from ground level, I shall be rubbing the dish down and respraying it once I get it down.

***Vipersan*** · 08-10-2009

..This is gonna make you cry ...
I sent 3 of these old sky analogue dishes to their final resting place last weekend ..one of which was actually still in use up to 3 weeks ago..when I took it off my dads wall ...and replaced it with a motorised 80cm..
2 of the scrappers were lattice types with holes in the reflector and one was a solid amstrad..
may they rest in pieces.

great dishes in their day...but my garden was starting to look like a scrapyard.
I kept all the old lnbs though ...
..well you never know when you might need a paperweight..

skydish · 08-10-2009

Oh what a shame, the old dishes had so much more character than the newer mini dishes. The one I am getting is the black perforated dish, I was going to get the white one but cannot find one in decent condition unfortunately. (unless I go knocking on strangers doors! Lol)

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