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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Jack" data-source="post: 1005455" data-attributes="member: 243342">And I don't mean motorising it, I mean moving the dish around 1 meter from where it is at the moment.Consider this photo:[ATTACH=full]103743[/ATTACH] The dish is looking at around 57.5E at the time of the outage last October. As you can see, at least 2/3 of the dish is covered by the neighbour's tree (no, I can't chop it down!), so the plan is to move the dish around a meter towards the sunlight. My easternmost satellite I can receive is 55E, though with efficiency of a 90cm dish.The dish is sat on a 4.5inch/127mm pole, so, as I can't really extend the base, since there's a drop-off into the rhyne at the end of it, I want to attach some fabrication to 'relocate' the pole.Something like this:[ATTACH=full]103745[/ATTACH] The question is how to join everything together. I would like the extension to be removable, so the cap will be bolted on the sides. I will make the new pole extension also removable, so I can have different sizes on there. I will also make it adjustable so I can get it perfectly vertical. Various bits and pieces will be welded.Any advice/constructive cirticisms appreciated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Jack, post: 1005455, member: 243342"] And I don't mean motorising it, I mean moving the dish around 1 meter from where it is at the moment. Consider this photo: [ATTACH=full]103743[/ATTACH] The dish is looking at around 57.5E at the time of the outage last October. As you can see, at least 2/3 of the dish is covered by the neighbour's tree (no, I can't chop it down!), so the plan is to move the dish around a meter towards the sunlight. My easternmost satellite I can receive is 55E, though with efficiency of a 90cm dish. The dish is sat on a 4.5inch/127mm pole, so, as I can't really extend the base, since there's a drop-off into the rhyne at the end of it, I want to attach some fabrication to 'relocate' the pole. Something like this: [ATTACH=full]103745[/ATTACH] The question is how to join everything together. I would like the extension to be removable, so the cap will be bolted on the sides. I will make the new pole extension also removable, so I can have different sizes on there. I will also make it adjustable so I can get it perfectly vertical. Various bits and pieces will be welded. Any advice/constructive cirticisms appreciated. [/QUOTE]

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