What I learned and a question about the sg2100

[Berling Sizemore]

Here is my question... can a SG2100 be lubricated with say wd-40 or hi temp grease? I have had mine over 2 years in the elements with no maintenance. I know this would "void the warrenty" but after 2 years I am not concerned about an experied warrenty.

Now my tips....

Of course make sure post is plum.

Choose a spot where you can get a nice view of the south to southeast. this means no trees...etc. It really is alot of space to cover the arc range is big.

When 119 is your true south... It is very helpfull to have a fixed dish network dish already pointed to 119. (the dish can be used as a refrence as to physical position ie elevation).

Make sure that you have a current and live non HD transponder while looking for the sat.

Not all recievers are good at finding sats under the USALS protocol. Viewsat comes to mind. Use 1.2 user defined for setup and initial scans... Then try USALS

Try minor tweaking to tighten down the arc... Elevate dish 1degree lower moter 1 degree... this type of fie tunning should be done to help with sats on the ends of the arc.

NOT all sats will be at max signal... ku ban comes in at 50% Dish and others such as Bell come in at 75% on some trans 100 on others you millage will vary.

Hope this all helps...

[rainman]

short of taking it apart and lubing the gears don't know of anthing else to lube. remember the grease they use today is alot better than it use to be that's why most automobiles don't even have grease fittings anymore. in other words if it ain't broken I wouldn't mess with it.LOL nice list of suggestions.

[Berling Sizemore]

Originally Posted by rainman

short of taking it apart and lubing the gears don't know of anthing else to lube. remember the grease they use today is alot better than it use to be that's why most automobiles don't even have grease fittings anymore. in other words if it ain't broken I wouldn't mess with it.LOL nice list of suggestions.

Thank you very much for the reply... I think you're right... if it ain't broke... you know that's always been a problem with me I like to mess with things that already work great...

Thanks again!

[wejones]

Originally Posted by Berling Sizemore

Here is my question... can a SG2100 be lubricated with say wd-40 or hi temp grease? I have had mine over 2 years in the elements with no maintenance. ...

I don't know what lubricant would be best, however WD40 isn't really a good lubricant. It's more for removal of water I think. Ie I think that the WD stands for water dispersal, or something like that... I think it was an Army term. So WD40 might be good as a first step, but I'd follow that up with a more lubricating grease. For my C-band H-H, people recommended using white lithium grease, but that was for metal gears, and I think the 2100 has plastic gears, so I'm not sure if solubility of or in the plastic is an issue. If the gears are polyethylene, that shouldn't be a problem, but some other plastics can be softened by some solvents. Maybe Sadoun knows what lubricants are used.