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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 963236" data-attributes="member: 175144">The IRTE 1.5m in almost every case outperformed the 1.8m Precision dishes I installed many years ago. The letdown was the first polarmount, the aluminium feed /feed arms that rot internally in UK weather so they have to be cut apart, and the thickness of the reflector that has to support the LNB(s) on its own. The reflector eventually distorts and loses some 10% of its efficiency.If you have a straight reflector (a few dents are fine, just the edges need to be undamaged) then treasure it and don't hang a heavy scalar ring and LNB off the centre unless you give the reflector some additional support by strapping some braces from the feedarm supports to the latter six point backplate.Oil/grease the polarmount bearings once a year and stick a carrier bag or three around them with cable clips.</blockquote>