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Suggestion would be to scrape and level the ground under the base so you're assured you won't get any wobble at all. Then if you weight it with concrete blocks or whatever. Just make sure the mounting pole always stays plumb. We're going to need that definitely. In other words. No wooden blocks.
Soak the ground with a bucket of hot water. Whatever is needed so that pole stays plumb and no wobble at all.
And now I can see your biggest issue when you were describing you couldn't tilt the dish back because the dish mount interfered with the lower motor bracket.
*Ding*. Light bulbs light up!
Ummmm.... have a drill and bits? Accurately layout and drill bolt holes that are further to the front of the lower motor bracket.
See how close the upper slotted holes come to the front of that side? Yeah!
But you knew that didn't you?
Now that you have the elevation set. And we've determined the dish bracket angle fairly close.
Hold the bracket. Or just bolt it up to the slotted upper brackets.
Get your inclinometer and set that angle. Then mark where you would drill the holes.
Of course that rear plate angle is without the declination added in.
And leaving some adjustment in the top slotted brackets for tweaking it all in.
Easy!
Oh and yes. Get that motor set exactly to the 0 mark on it. No biggie.
Haha. You gonna' ever remove that Fragile tape?
thanks, yea i know right?, yes the Fragile tape i will remove next also!, so about these reply's i still need help explaining it (so i know what i need to do correctly)!! :) ....
"Suggestion would be to scrape and level the ground under the base so you're assured you won't get any wobble at all".
i might be able to do that but dont want the ground going the same way the concreate base went!
"Then if you weight it with concrete blocks or whatever. Just make sure the mounting pole always stays plumb. We're going to need that definitely. In other words. No wooden blocks".
yes i will be using slabs for the base to weigh the base down to stop it from blowing/tilting etc!
"Soak the ground with a bucket of hot water. Whatever is needed so that pole stays plumb and no wobble at all."
HOT Water in this cold it will just freeze so that be pointless lol ;)
it could be the wind that's blowing the metal stand aswel as its very windy atm!
"And now I can see your biggest issue when you were describing you couldn't tilt the dish back because the dish mount interfered with the lower motor bracket.*Ding*. Light bulbs light up!"
YEP its So annoying right!
"Ummmm.... have a drill and bits?"
YES I mean who doesnt these days?? ;)
"Accurately layout and drill bolt holes that are further to the front of the lower motor bracket."
Please edit your explanation on my pics so i know what you mean! Thanks :)
"See how close the upper slotted holes come to the front of that side? Yeah!"
YES
"But you knew that didn't you?"
YEP
"Now that you have the elevation set. And we've determined the dish bracket angle fairly close."
YEP
"Hold the bracket. Or just bolt it up to the slotted upper brackets."
PLEASE EXPLAIN thanks
"Get your inclinometer and set that angle." Then mark where you would drill the holes.
PLEASE "EXPLAIN" thanks
"Of course that rear plate angle is without the declination added in."
OK???
"And leaving some adjustment in the top slotted brackets for tweaking it all in."
PLEASE "EXPLAIN" thanks
"Easy!"
BETTER BE!
"Oh and yes. Get that motor set exactly to the 0 mark on it. No biggie."
BTW 0 Is towards my house not in the middle did you know that?
thanks for looking & replying hopefully wont be too long now till its sorted (Weather dependent of course) ....
Yes i read what you wrote but still need 100% Visualization so i know what i need to do correctly, we have come so far you know :)!!