Stainless dish masts

Windmill · 2013-10-04T12:34:48+00:00

I was looking for a 2 meter cranked stainless steel mast which would (a) give me some adjustment ability (maybe allowing me to put a large dish above the bend, if forced to by clearance requirements, and (b) be strong enough to withstand large wind forces. It's to go 75 feet up on the roof of a tenement building, where winds occasionally gust to over 100 m.p.h., so the usual aluminium masts might not be strong enough. Small Sky dishes there are usually put on very short masts just above roof level. Steel would probably be strong enough, and I could take the slightly irresponsible attitude that it won't rust through until after I'm dead, but stainless would be tougher and wouldn't corrode. I don't see any stainless masts on roofs, and I didn't see any on Google. Does anyone make such a thing? One metalworking place suggested that making one for me would cost well over 100.00, which seems unreasonable. (But he was a Scotty-sound-alike, only worse!) In the meantime, I'm going to try to put the dish in the lee of the chimney stack, as near to roof level as possible, as others do with smaller dishes, and will paint a steel mast as best I can.