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Adjustable standoff for tripod? adjust horizontally

I just received my RocketM5s with my 2 5g30 RocketDish.

The fiber pop has a tripod on the pitched roof (similar to »ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3···300_.jpg ) with a TV Antenna in the top.

I am mounting my rocketdish to one of the legs of the tripod.

The problem is the legs are not pointed directly at my other radio, which means my radio will not be level as there is no adjustment horizontally, just vertically.

Anyone encounter something like this and find something strong enough to support it? Been scouring websites and google and can't find anything yet.

Thanks

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I supposed I can see if they even use the antenna anymore, I doubt it, but the owner is an odd guy, I hate to ask him anymore than I already have.

Or if there is enough room below the antenna on the vertical mast.

I have something that will work, I'll try and find a picture.... they came with the waveip radios.....

»shop.bizsyscon.com/alvarion-flat···20018-c/

Replace the vertical mast with a longer one?

Agreed. A 2' dish needs a much more sturdy mount than a tripod leg of the type you posted a link to a picture of.

That is NOT a suitable mount, and IMO no one should tell you otherwise. If nothing else to save you a potential liability lawsuit later when it WILL and Does break.

The vertical mast coming out of that tripod would most likely be suitable. We do that all the time with 1.5" electrical conduit. And that's with the dish located just above the top lock down point of the tripod to said mast.
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So I can't bolt to the leg of the tripod which is closer to the base where wind has less force, but I can bolt it to the vertical mast coming out the top where wind would have more leverage?

The tripod is not just screwed into the sheathing of the roof, Each leg of the tripod has 10" lag bolts with 2" washers that are bolted into 3ft long 2x6's that are in the attic, which sandwich the roof boards/shingles between it and the top of the tripod mounts. It is not going anywhere, besides bending and dangling there, the mounts are solid.

Also, you said in your other post it needed to be level, which I know, hence my post here to find a standoff that would compensate for the angle of the tripod.

Or even a fixed standoff that would give me a complete plum vertical mount.

Lets think about this for a moment. If one leg would suffice, they would only need one leg. Satellite dishes mounted a couple feet off of a roof require 3 legs, and ideally done the same way you describe (even though no one does it that way), PLUS they have more than one lag per leg, two per leg and four on the mount plate.. They have LESS or similar wind load than the dish you installed

You are looking at a hundred plus pounds of leverage in a wind storm on that one leg. Moving back and forth, twisting, pulling, pushing, jerking, Etc... No, it's not enough. But it's your company/roof/whatever.

If you offset off that one leg, you are creating even more leverage against the one leg
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You make it sound like the one leg is sitting there floating in mid air by itself. Its attached at multiple points, to the other two legs, making it a tripod.

For that ONE leg to shear off, it would have to break 6 welds and 4 bolts where that ONE leg is FIXED to the other 2 legs.

I would still rather have the dish closer to the fulcrum, (the roof), so the wind has less leverage.

I could bolt it to the top of the vertical mast, but raising it another 6 feet away from the fulcrum multiplies the force of the 100mph wind that much more.

Same theory of using a pry bar to take off your lug nuts. Get a longer bar, you break them off easier.

Mount the dish on a longer pole further out, the wind will break my tripod off easier.

I do understand you are trying to help, I feel this mount is sufficient. I'm a cheap start up WISP, I can't afford to throw large amounts of cash to a proper fiber pop. BUT, this tripod is sturdy. I climbed the lower horizontal braces and stood there while I adjusted the dish, and felt safe. All while on that steep roof with a 60ft drop off to the street below.

In any regard, this rooftop scares me anyway. I hate having to go up there, winter is going to be impossible.

If this WISP proves to be somewhat profitable, I will try to secure some space on the local water tower which would be a little safer to access.

If I am forced here over the winter, I may install a backup radio just incase, so if anything happens I can just switch over wires and keep running.

I'm not trying to be rude here. But in all honesty I could give two craps about what you do. I'm simply trying to tell you that if you want to be a professional WISP, you should rethink that mount. I don't think you really have any idea of the forces that are put on that mount and how you have it mounted. Sure, it may hold. But if you do that link half arsed, that's your feed my friend... You have already said it will be impossible to maintain in the winter... Well try an inch of ice on that dish, with 50+ mile an hour winds on it, and it breaks..

Again, I don't care what you do. But I am trying to save you some time and aggravation. Take a look at my join date to the left. If you think you have tried something I haven't, think again. And then think about it again... Again, not trying to be rude. But seriously, you're not the first guy/person to try this. It is NOT a suitable mount.
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