Strong T and K Brackets

[BlackHawk]

J W Hardy, is your best bet for your brackets. I've used them for over 25 years and never had any problems with their deliveries or goods and the staff are very helpfull.
JEFF

[wod]

Originally Posted by BGonaSTICK

Good question. Quite a few, but nobody tends to use 3" masts. The specs usually give a range of diameters, and it's often 2" - 3".

Many brackets could be hacked around anyway.

The new Triax dishes take a mast up to 95mm diameter!

yeah to get my andrews dish up the t&k need to be modded to fit the 3 inch pole as i was going to try and get away with 2inch pole for the jaeger 1224 motor but i dont want to cut corners or something will go wrong

sat superstore do 3 inch poles but they are 60 quid

[BGonaSTICK]

Originally Posted by wod

sat superstore do 3 inch poles but they are 60 quid

Larger diameters and relatively short lengths do get more expensive, but that really winds me up, especially when you know that they're buying in fairly large quantities from a stockholder.

You can get 2.5m of 4.5" stainless tube for that!

You have to shop around, as with all things.

[barr6868]

Yep, I'll have to lend my tuppence worth.

Stainless is the way forward for any structural mount IMO.

Stronger,harder to work with,harder to cut/drill, harder to do any welding on, but durable and less prone to rust, etc (especially if you can nick/obtain 316 grade).

Mounted my 80cm motorised dish on an L shaped wall bracket and has been solid (1/8 " wall thickness of pipe)- no probs.

Got myself a 3m length of stainless 2" pipe for mounting my Triax 110cm dish and motor which I'm going to set in the ground. . (not sure what grade? looks ok though)

regards

[BGonaSTICK]

3" stainless tubing is easy to come by down here. You can find it sticking out the back of any parked Subaru WRX ops:

[barr6868]

Originally Posted by BGonaSTICK

3" stainless tubing is easy to come by down here. You can find it sticking out the back of any parked Subaru WRX ops:

Not many subaru's to look at up here. :spite:

looks alright on a lada and a yugo, but doubles the weight.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by barr6868

Yep, I'll have to lend my tuppence worth.

Stainless is the way forward for any structural mount IMO.

Stronger,harder to work with,harder to cut/drill, harder to do any welding on, but durable and less prone to rust, etc (especially if you can nick/obtain 316 grade).

Mounted my 80cm motorised dish on an L shaped wall bracket and has been solid (1/8 " wall thickness of pipe)- no probs.

Got myself a 3m length of stainless 2" pipe for mounting my Triax 110cm dish and motor which I'm going to set in the ground. . (not sure what grade? looks ok though)

Now that I have had my memory jogged was doing a job in an ice cream factory a few weeks ago and had to cut out some 3" stainless steel piping, at least 12 ft long and just left in the roof space. I might try to head back over there and scrounge meself some.

regards

[barr6868]

Originally Posted by tabs

Can I get some rasberry on mine?

[wod]

stainless steel poles not seen many of them about i tend to use is galvanised scaffold poles

[BGonaSTICK]

Nothing like the bling of stainless steel though.

I'm going to swipe the handrails at my local swimming baths (sorry, 'fitness centre') for a bit of raw material