Re: Dish tripods, and How to aim the dish myself

john wilsonn top posted and wrote:
> 
>    Forget the tripod.  Get a 5 gallon bucket. 

And how do you SECURE this "bucket" so that it doesn't spin in the
wind, or when some body hits it by accident?

I know, I'm just wondering if you do!


> Using Sakrete pour up the rim
> insuring that the -/+ 4 ft. antenna mast pipe is plumbed vertical.

Use QUIK-CRETE instead! (Red bags)
It hardens in less then 30 minutes, and I have not had a failure yet,
(over five years) when using 8 foot poles (6'above ground, with two
feet into the ground) and mounting 36" dishes, let alone using STURDY
TRIPODS when bolted SECURLEY into the decks!
One way or another, that Bucket of slop has to be SECURED TO WHAT IT IS
SITTING ON!

>  Home Depot
> has a pipe size very close to the DTV pipe.

 I use and recomend 1 5/8ths inch OUTSIDE DIAMETER galvanized FENCE
POST Piping, as that is the EXACT same diameter as the OEM stuff that
they use!  :>



>  It is a slightly larger size but
> can be made to work. 

"Made" to work"...indeed!

Get the good stuff like I use instead, OK?
After all, it IS the exact same size!
1 and 5/8ths inch!
Home Depot does indeed sell it!

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