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<blockquote data-quote="Archive4" data-source="post: 920782">Don´t think this issue would apply to prime focus dishes. Bruce, my friend with the nearly faceless dish, did comment on the fact the rubber washers can allow movement. Not too many dishes have these, and if they do, not too many installers use them! But with the GI the backmount is not correctly shaped, so if you over-tighten the bolts you distort the dish face. The Fam backmount is correctly shaped so you can go as tight as &quot; your little arm allows &quot;! I have a theory that this inability to fully tighten the bolts on the GI version on first install is causing the current wind related issues.Even if a prime focus dish did come with the rubber washers ( and I know the Fam 1.8´s do ) due to the design and angle to the wind of a prime V offset, I don´t think it would be an issue. Primes being bolted in approx centre dish along a circular line against off-set´s being top, middle and bottom!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Archive4, post: 920782"] Don´t think this issue would apply to prime focus dishes. Bruce, my friend with the nearly faceless dish, did comment on the fact the rubber washers can allow movement. Not too many dishes have these, and if they do, not too many installers use them! But with the GI the backmount is not correctly shaped, so if you over-tighten the bolts you distort the dish face. The Fam backmount is correctly shaped so you can go as tight as " your little arm allows "! I have a theory that this inability to fully tighten the bolts on the GI version on first install is causing the current wind related issues. Even if a prime focus dish did come with the rubber washers ( and I know the Fam 1.8´s do ) due to the design and angle to the wind of a prime V offset, I don´t think it would be an issue. Primes being bolted in approx centre dish along a circular line against off-set´s being top, middle and bottom! [/QUOTE]

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