Removing LNB from Sky dish

L1011

Having some SERIOUS troubles doing this despite having done it a few hundred times:

The spigot/peg is stuck in the dish arm. It appears the plastic has degraded enough from UV to rot together. It was degraded enough that the old LNB actually broke off the peg, leaving me with an amputated peg stuck in its surrounding bit of plastic, stuck in the feed arm.

Obviously I've taken the plug that goes down in to the peg off.

Anyone any advice on what's the best way to get this out, short of drilling the fecker to bits?

Liameter

Have you access to a hot air paint stripper gun?

What is a "peg off"?

UV can't attack plastic inside a metal tube.

Atlantic Dawn

Yes heat gun or lighter underneath it and it will melt. Make sure you coat it with paint afterwards or it will rust.

homelink

The plug may still be in as you may have only broken off part of it. Try pushing a screwdriver up through the hole to clear any remaining bits & then use a long nose pliers to pull out the insert, it should come out with a bit effort.
Of course be careful if you are on a ladder.:):)

L1011

homelink wrote: »

The plug may still be in as you may have only broken off part of it. Try pushing a screwdriver up through the hole to clear any remaining bits & then use a long nose pliers to pull out the insert, it should come out with a bit effort.
Of course be careful if you are on a ladder.:):)

Pushing it out with a screwdriver was the only way to get the plug out - the top broke off straight away

Dish has been fitted for about 5 years in direct sunlight so any plastics that could go manky, have.

Liameter - the problem is that anything outside the tube has rotted away too much to get a grip on, it just squashes and tears off under force.


I'll try a heat gun, got one somewhere, I think (Lidl purchases...)

Cesium Clock

if you break the outside edge of the plastic insert off, you can then push the remainder down inside the tube, or why not buy a new dish ?

L1011

Got the peg out, the sheath section is stuck firmly but as its identical to the one I'm putting in (just extremely mangled...) I've just kept it.

Any energy I had to move furniture and drill the new hole for the cable is gone, think that'll happen tomorrow!