Wax my satilite dish?

[Rixster]

I am tired of snow screwing up my tv reciption. What works? I have heard to sprsy it with pam. I was thinking I might give it a nice wax job this fall, anybody tried that?

 

[Jeff C]

How about taking a 10' piece of heat tape and glueing it on the back of the dish and run an extension cord down to an outlet?

It snows, plug it in for an hour or two, and the snow melts........

 

[tudizzle]

How about Pam? or some other type of industrial silcone spray? Don't they make some kind of product for snowmoibles to spray on the underside of your tunnel to prevent snowbuild up..that may work

I just use a sooper soaker filled with hot water, works every time

 

[MARV1]

Saran wrap the actual receiver end about 8" or so in a triangle whatever.

 

[Motley Doo]

If there is that much snow on your dish......WHY AREN'T YOU RIDING!!!????




Might try that stuff they use to keep ice from building up on snow-blowers.

 

[Gone Sleddin]

move to minnesota. we never get enough snow to cover a dish, and if we do, the wind blows hard enough to blow the snow into drifts in the grove

 

[ArcticBoy]

And to think I was wondering how your dish was growing hair??????

 

[M.M. 700]

They make "snow covers" the ones I have seen are a black slick cover that goes over the dish.

 

[Ex-Member]

No reason you can't put an umbrella over it or relocate it to a position under an eave or something.... or as mentioned above, heat tape on the back.

But yeah, covering it with something radio-transparent would work fine. I don't know about greasing it, but it's worth a shot.

 

[Sturgis Sledder]

They make a heater for dishes and I had one, everytime we got a wet heavy snow I'd turn on the heater (it was on a light switch in the house) and in about 5 minutes it was all good. Well worth the effort.

 

[Burndown1]

How about Pam? or some other type of industrial silcone spray? Don't they make some kind of product for snowmoibles to spray on the underside of your tunnel to prevent snowbuild up..that may work

I just use a sooper soaker filled with hot water, works every time

I tried Pam. She was no good.

 

[Vertical_Escape]

Seems like some kind of spray silicone or Teflon would help. I use a Teflon based wax on my sled, seems to keep snow from sticking.........

 

[Bubba700]

They make "snow covers" the ones I have seen are a black slick cover that goes over the dish.

Bingo, used to install them and this is the best method in the long run

 

[Ollie]

I have that problem 2 or 3 times a year. I just use a super soaker filled with hot water.
30 seconds and it was all clear.

 

[bullfrog123]

Bingo, used to install them and this is the best method in the long run

So where you find these covers? Thanks

 

[phatty]

So where you find these covers? Thanks

i have a whole garbage bag full of them left over from summer sales.
$15 shipped to your door... let me know

 

[Bubba700]

So where you find these covers? Thanks

Stop in at Merlin's TV in IF (its by texas Roadhead) El genes in rexburg used to carry them or hook Phatty up with 15$ twards his house payment on his new pad.

i have a whole garbage bag full of them left over from summer sales.
$15 shipped to your door... let me know

 

[bullfrog123]

i have a whole garbage bag full of them left over from summer sales.
$15 shipped to your door... let me know

PM sent.

 

[triple]

Didn't Clark Griswold have some "new non-caloric silicone based kitchen lubricant my company's working on. It creates a surface 500 times slipperier than any cooking oil. We're really going to fly down the hill on this stuff".

Maybe that will work.