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Trying to find Astra 28.2 and configure dish
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<blockquote data-quote="joddle" data-source="post: 1024721" data-attributes="member: 247983"><p>Just to add - the dishes were branded as Fortecstar - mine was identical to the one shown the ebay advert. When it arrived even putting it together was a pain in the butt as the holes did not exactly all line up and took some jiggling to get them to all go in. Also the bolts are woefully inadequate and really required decent washers behind both sides to ensure a good pulling together of the petal surfaces. Then when you look at the completed dish it is easy to see by eye it's not a perfect surface and rises slightly at each seam and drops back in the centre of each petal. Running a hand over the surface makes it even more obvious as you can feel the profile go up and down. As stated earlier the LNB arms need tweaking to get the LNB focused at the centre of the dish and its almost impossible to get the whole dish to have a uniform edge - i.e. if you set it facedown on a flat floor all the edge should be in contact with the ground - -it took a lot of untightening pushing and retightening of the petals to get even that basic requirement sorted. When you consider all these issues its easy to see why these dishes do not perform nearly as well as the solid or spun versions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joddle, post: 1024721, member: 247983"] Just to add - the dishes were branded as Fortecstar - mine was identical to the one shown the ebay advert. When it arrived even putting it together was a pain in the butt as the holes did not exactly all line up and took some jiggling to get them to all go in. Also the bolts are woefully inadequate and really required decent washers behind both sides to ensure a good pulling together of the petal surfaces. Then when you look at the completed dish it is easy to see by eye it's not a perfect surface and rises slightly at each seam and drops back in the centre of each petal. Running a hand over the surface makes it even more obvious as you can feel the profile go up and down. As stated earlier the LNB arms need tweaking to get the LNB focused at the centre of the dish and its almost impossible to get the whole dish to have a uniform edge - i.e. if you set it facedown on a flat floor all the edge should be in contact with the ground - -it took a lot of untightening pushing and retightening of the petals to get even that basic requirement sorted. When you consider all these issues its easy to see why these dishes do not perform nearly as well as the solid or spun versions. [/QUOTE]
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