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<blockquote data-quote="moonbase" data-source="post: 1106032" data-attributes="member: 178786">To modify an irte polar mount to accept another make of dish you need to fabricate a metal frame that can fit onto the irte polar mount and also act as a frame for the other dish type to be bolted on to. The metal frame acts as an interface between the irte polar mount and the non irte dish.Some time ago I created a simple frame from some steel box section to mount a Precision satellite dish onto an irte polar mount. Normally, it would not be possible to bolt a Precision dish onto an irte polar mount as the mounting fixings are different. The frame I created out of steel box section acted as an interface between the satellite dish and the irte polar mount.I also made a modification to the declination adjustment to allow for a fine tune threaded rod adjustment to the declination. I have attached some pictures of the frame construction and declination modification below.In theory, you could create a similar type of frame to bolt a 1.8m chanel master dish onto an irte polar mount but with 4 appropriately distributed bolt holes for securing the dish.I am not sure how well the modifications would work for a channel master 1.8m dish. If you can source an original polar mount for the channel master I would recommend that as the way to go.The bearings on the irte polar mount version that I did the modification on were moderate quality and I was not impressed with them..[ATTACH]134608[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]134609[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]134610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]134611[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]134612[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]134613[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]134614[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]134615[/ATTACH][ATTACH]134616[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moonbase, post: 1106032, member: 178786"] To modify an irte polar mount to accept another make of dish you need to fabricate a metal frame that can fit onto the irte polar mount and also act as a frame for the other dish type to be bolted on to. The metal frame acts as an interface between the irte polar mount and the non irte dish. Some time ago I created a simple frame from some steel box section to mount a Precision satellite dish onto an irte polar mount. Normally, it would not be possible to bolt a Precision dish onto an irte polar mount as the mounting fixings are different. The frame I created out of steel box section acted as an interface between the satellite dish and the irte polar mount. I also made a modification to the declination adjustment to allow for a fine tune threaded rod adjustment to the declination. I have attached some pictures of the frame construction and declination modification below. In theory, you could create a similar type of frame to bolt a 1.8m chanel master dish onto an irte polar mount but with 4 appropriately distributed bolt holes for securing the dish. I am not sure how well the modifications would work for a channel master 1.8m dish. If you can source an original polar mount for the channel master I would recommend that as the way to go. The bearings on the irte polar mount version that I did the modification on were moderate quality and I was not impressed with them. . [ATTACH alt="Modified Declination Fitting For IRTE Polar Mount.jpg"]134608[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="Irte-1224 Hybridisation.jpg"]134609[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="Modified IRTE Polar Mount (Declination Offset).jpg"]134610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="IRTE-Precision Hybridisation Frame.jpg"]134611[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="Precision Frame for IRTE Polar Mount (01).jpg"]134612[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="Precision Frame for IRTE Polar Mount (02).jpg"]134613[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="Precision Frame for IRTE Polar Mount (03).jpg"]134614[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="Precision Frame for IRTE Polar Mount (04).jpg"]134615[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="Precision Frame for IRTE Polar Mount (05).jpg"]134616[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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