What are your most used tools needed for installing a satellite setup.

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krzyżakowy

 

[skomedal]

klucz do nakrętek


Also translates as """ the key to the nuts """"

 

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klucz do nakrętek

OK, Google translate let me down, badly!

Google

 

[Lazarus]

Spanner .......

 

[Archive4]

Yep!

 

[BM300]

Spectrum Analyser and Inclinometer
Good set of spanners/screw drivers and a drill

 

[Lazarus]

Anger Management Training.

For those times when you are in mid-tweak and it starts raining, or when you have got everything just so and the final nip of the spanner pushes summat out of kilter.

 

[Archive4]

Anger Management Training. Or when you have got everything just so and the final nip of the spanner pushes summat out of kilter.

Thankfully, that only happens in the Borders and further north. In the south, something just slips out of alignment, usually, must be something to do with jeans!

 

[sonnetpete]

.....usually, must be something to do with jeans!

....only if it's a family run business....

 

[Archive4]

....only if it's a family run business....

Not if it´s Wrangler.
Google ( or other ) it talks about jeans and 4wd vehicles, but I´m sure the original wrangler was a roaming cowboy who was good at " breaking " horses, i.e. not hurting them, just taming the wild ones.
Terryl?

 

[4wd]

Not exactly a tool: got a piece of heat shrink sleeve (w adhesive) on any often dis-\re- connected F nuts = good grip for easy\fast finger tightening\release :O)

 

[Lazarus]

Good tip.

 

[satelliteman]

Yes, nice trick. There is also a quick F connector which is effectively a push on type F.

 

[PaulR]

There is also a quick F connector which is effectively a push on type F.

Yup, use those all the time. What a godsend.

 

[jeallen01]

Virtually TWO of every tool mentioned because:
- sometimes there are two nuts/bolts that need to be released/tightened at the same time
- when you need the first one, you can't find it!

OTOH, some of the modified tools - like the box spanner with a slot in it - are great = the KISS principle.

OTOH2 - I need (at least) one more brain because the existing one is getting rather worn out.

On a more basic level, my most useful tool seems to be the straight forward analogue signal level meter (but mine is an old SMS DSM10 which is "better". Does anyone know if that is sold now under a different name, because it has several very useful features that are not found on most basic meters because it does not differentiate between analogue (are there still any?) and digital signals - like indication of the 22kHz tone and of the Diseqc mini/1.1 LNB selected, - and so responds quickly to any signal that it "sees"). The latter feature is especially relevant here because of the unpredictable (to most of use :-(!) reflection angles when attempting to align multiple LNBs on the same dish

 

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Virtually TWO of every tool mentioned because:
- sometimes there are two nuts/bolts that need to be released/tightened at the same time
- when you need the first one, you can't find it!

OTOH, some of the modified tools - like the box spanner with a slot in it - are great = the KISS principle.

OTOH2 - I need (at least) one more brain because the existing one is getting rather worn out.

On a more basic level, my most useful tool seems to be the straight forward analogue signal level meter (but mine is an old SMS DSM10 which is "better". Does anyone know if that is sold now under a different name, because it has several very useful features that are not found on most basic meters because it does not differentiate between analogue (are there still any?) and digital signals - like indication of the 22kHz tone and of the Diseqc mini/1.1 LNB selected, - and so responds quickly to any signal that it "sees").

Welcome to the current world, Catweasle!