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<blockquote data-quote="archive10" data-source="post: 1053008"><p>Polar mount: Should call it Rusty or Dusty...</p><p></p><p>Closer inspection reveals the mount to have been more exposed to the elements than the 2140 mount.</p><p>As can be seen in seller's pics above, the dish was mounted just above ground in a flower bed. Lots of dirt has made it's way onto the dish and mount. Surprisingly, it seems a lot of dirt has also made it *into* the dish, as I can hear a lot of debris moving about inside the drum that's bolted to the reflector.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]117990[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]117991[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]117992[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Also, the mount has been modified at one point to fit over a small pole rather than in the wall-mounting bracket it was designed for.</p><p>Three nuts has been welded to the mounting tube, clearly at non-equal distances along the circumference of the tube.</p><p>The bolts and the nuts were extremely rusty, and took 15 minutes + WD40 to release when I picked the dish up.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]117993[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The extra nuts and bolts makes a mounting of dish more cumbersome.</p><p>Still fits in the testbench, though, so something similar must be used in a "real" installation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archive10, post: 1053008"] Polar mount: Should call it Rusty or Dusty... Closer inspection reveals the mount to have been more exposed to the elements than the 2140 mount. As can be seen in seller's pics above, the dish was mounted just above ground in a flower bed. Lots of dirt has made it's way onto the dish and mount. Surprisingly, it seems a lot of dirt has also made it *into* the dish, as I can hear a lot of debris moving about inside the drum that's bolted to the reflector. [ATTACH]117990[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]117991[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]117992[/ATTACH] Also, the mount has been modified at one point to fit over a small pole rather than in the wall-mounting bracket it was designed for. Three nuts has been welded to the mounting tube, clearly at non-equal distances along the circumference of the tube. The bolts and the nuts were extremely rusty, and took 15 minutes + WD40 to release when I picked the dish up. [ATTACH]117993[/ATTACH] The extra nuts and bolts makes a mounting of dish more cumbersome. Still fits in the testbench, though, so something similar must be used in a "real" installation. [/QUOTE]
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