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Old 02-17-2008, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by lumpkin666 View Post
Maybe with small winds, but I've read about this several times, and it seems that at a certain wind velocity, a mesh dish does not allow wind to pass through the small holes enough to make the wind strain any lighter. An article I had read on this subject referred to the mesh dish as being "seen" as a solid in the respect of wind resistance beginning at a relatively low wind speed.
Yes you are 100 percent correct, on the wind speed a mess dish is the same a solid dish at 60mph or more, an most dishes here (south FL) that fail with high winds turns the mess dish into a clam, an solids will bend, if not spin around on the pole.

but in the picture it looks like a poor design, of the parts that broke, cant see for sure in picture if it was made out of pot (kind of looks like it) metal, an pot metal doent take any bending at all then it breaks. an if it was steel probably be ok.
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