This
contribution is from Mark Carver, who takes up the story.
This is a 60cm sat dish on a council pitch and putt club house.
The mount is screwed into some uPVC plastic fascia.
Previous to this picture being taken, a gust of wind had caught
the dish, and a perfect section of uPVC had broken away.
The dish, and uPVC section dangled in the wind held only by the
coax cable.
Unfortunately, by the time a return visit was made to photograph
this spectacle, a repair has been made. You can make out the originally
broken piece of uPVC, and presumably longer screws are now used,
that reach back into some firmer material ? The cable looks old,
so that's not been replaced, and note how it is still left to happily
dangle in the wind.
Mark
Bill's
comment:
A dish should never be fixed to a fascia like this. Even if
the wood is sound the stresses caused by the wind are likely to
cause creaking noises. The close-up shows the damaged pvc and
the replacement screws, which look rather small.
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