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<blockquote data-quote="bubby-joe" data-source="post: 577155" data-attributes="member: 307458">What starman 345 said, your all welcome the pictures explain a lot better than I can verbally.&nbsp; The reason I'm looking on your side of the pond is that no satellite shops here know anything but the little pie plates any more.. I had to teach myself to install the c-band setup from scratch, parts here are free I use a homemade atv winch setup to remove the dish from the pole then recycle what I can, right now prices are down so I have 5-10 footers a 12 and lots of pie plates in the scrap pile, Oh yah and an aluminum boat and a huge pile of analog receivers under 6 ft of snow.Starman the scale ring is more important to be right on than the lnb in the mount, just use small metal shims to keep it square and don't over tighten, I had a geosat and gave it away to a machinist friend that made a tapered split ring adapter to shim it straight, he taps the tapered ring in from the rear to align it, kind of like a tapered wheel nut lock on a military truck, the scale ring that came with the geosat lnbf was tapered the opposite way to the lnbf tube taper making for an impossible fit the scale rings in the scrap as well, the focal distance and scale ring alignment is critical and the Ku linear skew adjustment to your true south satellite are some my little hints to better performance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bubby-joe, post: 577155, member: 307458"] What starman 345 said, your all welcome the pictures explain a lot better than I can verbally. The reason I'm looking on your side of the pond is that no satellite shops here know anything but the little pie plates any more.. I had to teach myself to install the c-band setup from scratch, parts here are free I use a homemade atv winch setup to remove the dish from the pole then recycle what I can, right now prices are down so I have 5-10 footers a 12 and lots of pie plates in the scrap pile, Oh yah and an aluminum boat and a huge pile of analog receivers under 6 ft of snow. Starman the scale ring is more important to be right on than the lnb in the mount, just use small metal shims to keep it square and don't over tighten, I had a geosat and gave it away to a machinist friend that made a tapered split ring adapter to shim it straight, he taps the tapered ring in from the rear to align it, kind of like a tapered wheel nut lock on a military truck, the scale ring that came with the geosat lnbf was tapered the opposite way to the lnbf tube taper making for an impossible fit the scale rings in the scrap as well, the focal distance and scale ring alignment is critical and the Ku linear skew adjustment to your true south satellite are some my little hints to better performance. [/QUOTE]

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