How to Check for Warping in a Plastic Satellite Dish
Satellite dishes provide satellite media programming to your home or office by collecting the satellite signal feed from the satellite orbiting the earth. Warping on either the reflector dish or the mast of the satellite dish assembly can create an unevenness that may result in a weakened or disrupted signal. You can check for warping on a satellite dish and replace the necessary parts regardless of your familiarity with satellite dish systems.
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Instructions
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Look at the plastic reflector dish that makes up the top of the satellite dish assembly. The reflector dish fits into the dish mast below it. Check the reflector dish to see if it is visibly bent.
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Use a handheld level to measure along the dish mast to see if it is uneven. The dish mast is likely warped if the dish is sitting unevenly on the mounting surface as shown by your handheld level.
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Replace the affected, warped reflector dish. Slide the dish mast out of the reflector dish by loosening the large screw on the mast clamp using a Phillips screwdriver. You'll find this clamp at the back of the dish mast where the reflector dish slides into it.
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Replace the reflector dish by inserting the dish mast into the clamp of a new reflector dish. Tighten the screw on the clamp.
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Replace the affected, warped dish mast on the satellite by loosening the mast clamp with your screwdriver and sliding the mast down and out. Insert a new mast and tighten the clamp back up.
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