TD110 Triax Dish Assembly Instructions?

Bozacke

Hello,

I just received a new Triax TD110 dish and it didn't have any instructions. After reading so much about Triax dishes, i assumed it would be easy to setup and as well considering their popularity you'd assume there would be a lot of information on assembly, unfortunately there isn't. I've put together a few different types of Sat Dishes before, but something seems wrong with this.

Attaching the first bracket that attaches to the back of the Dish is straightforward, but there's a second bracket and it doesn't seem to securely attach. The piece seems to slide over the other bracket and there are two screws, but they only seem to hold it in place with tension and there are no holes in the first bracket for securement. I must be missing something, because if I put this thing up as is, it would be down with the first good wind and this is Ireland where it's always windy! I've googled, but I can't even find a good picture of how it should be assembled.

If anyone has assembly instructions or even a good picture as how it should be assembled i'd greatly appreciate it.

Martin_F

Both triax dishes I assembled came with instructions TD58 & TD78.

Yours sounds the same - a bracket that bolts directly onto the back of the dish - with the arm coming through the dish?

Then there is indeed a 'clamp' type bracket that slides on to the first one. It is held by tightening the bolt(s) to force the clamp (the bolts pull the clamp sides together). You slacken to adjust the elevation and then tighten. When it is tightened it doesn't slip.

That bracket then clamps to the pole if I recall using 2 or more U bolts.

I've found them easy to mount - but I've never mounted anything else.

Mine have never moved in 3 years.

byte

Does that help? The angle on that bracket in the picture seems a tad extreme compared to what we get, as it won't allow that dish to lower elevation enough without flipping it over.

However, it gives you the idea of how it should go together

Link from www.satshop.fi

Or see Greenman's dish

STB

Instructions for TD110 assembly from Tvtrade's Dave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHuhR05fQc

Bozacke

Thanks for all the replies!! Byte- Yes, that's exactly how it looks. Yes, I can get it fairly tight, but I would have thought it would make more sense for the two bolts to go through a slot on the piece at the back of the dish, as oppose to just hold it in place with tension. Also, the surface areas of the bracket where the nuts and bolts rest are not optimised for tightening. In addition, if you note in your picture there is a third hole, but only 2 bolts and nuts were provided. I suppose it probably won't move and most of the wind pressure on the dish will be horizontal and it will experience very little vertical pressure. I guess I'm just paranoid because my previous dish was a cheap Lidl's dish which was always moving from strong winds, but that was mainly because of the cheap plastic connections and a flimsy arm and then later caused by weakening from rusted mounting bracket - which eventually sheared off and I had to replace, rusted u-bolts -which I also replaced and eventually the dish rusted at the mounting holes and the dish folded in the last wind storm. But strangely enough the cheap Lidl's dish had a slot for the bolts to go through, it would have made a lot more sense if the Triax dish also had a slot.