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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 980562" data-attributes="member: 325666">Well ...in fer a penny etc ...Took a chance and ordered one of those cheap 1.4m Mix dishes which arrived this morning ..Spent the evening making the parts fit ..lolNow I know why they are so cheap ..The rear dish brace which attaches to the AZ/EL mount .....attaches with 6 bolts ..The holes through from reflector to rear brace dont quite line up ...so required a bit of work with a round file on the rear brace ..This wasn't too bad a job...but worse to come ..The blind bolts with flat domed heads that mount through from the reflector side have shallow squares to stop them rotating when located ..thus you can tighten up the nut side without them rotating in the hole ...there is no other way as they have blind domed heads..our survey says ...nahh Ahhh ...The reflector has 6 round holes but not pierced for squares ...thus you cannot fit the domed head bolts flush ...nor stop them rotating ...AND you would distort the dish should you try and tighten them ..So ..out came the small square file ...and spent an couple of hourse making those round holes ...square ..Where is Quality Control when you need it ????Anyway ..this being the second cheap ebay dish I've bought recently ...I wasn't going through the hassle of arguing for return .....No parts missing this time so made the damned thing fit together ..Already worked out how I'm gonna fit a C band LNB to the offset tripod ...which is only really designed for ku .....and the mod wont destroy the ku mount so ...this being my last attempt at getting 25E with an extra 1.3 db ..If all else fails it should be useful in its current location for Newsfeeds in ka from 19E ..So there's the plus..rgdsVSphotos to follow once its up and mounted..;)</blockquote>

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