Many 3 ft and larger dishes, especially high performance and licensed, specify a 3.5” diameter pipe. In fact some specify 4.5”, but that’s a bit excessive IMHO, at least for a 3 ft dish.
The next size down is probably 2.375 which I use a lot of. The other thing once you start needing a 3.5 or 4.5 inch pipe, is support struts or stiff arms. I find it annoying that Radiowaves doesn’t have a tab to attach a stiff arm on their 3 ft licensed dishes. And no lift hook either. Grrrrrrr. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 1:51 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Pipe Mounts 3" is too big IMO I think SAF mounts call for 2.25" minimum? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:46 PM, <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: I am doing this universal pipe mount that will allow a larger dish on a Rohn type or crappy sheet metal freestanding type. And doing the larger version of the M-TOW-P The question is, what size pipe? I had initially designed it with 3 inch pipe which is actually 3.5” OD. Looking at the pipe chart, 2.5” has an OD of 2.875”. The smaller pipe would be noticeably lighter to heft. Is that large enough to make SAF type mounts happy? Or would y’all rather have the larger pipe.
