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It’s gotta be incredibly rewarding for the folks at WeatherFlow to see the fruits of their labor pop up all over the globe. I have a brother who creates amazing props for professional haunted houses, and he too gets orders from all over – Ireland, Dubai, France, Spain, Australia… What a kick it mus…

Awesome. Can’t wait to see you climb up there to change the batteries in a year though. Lol.

You wanted 3m so I gave you 3m. Wowsers: [54] Just above the TV antenna I have the tall pole (about 1.25" diameter) split so I can lift it off and access the Sky to change batteries. It’s aluminum tubing, which had a prior life (is recycled) somewhere on top of Mount Wellington I believe: [image] …

Hi Eric. I used a retired tether ball pole and part of a closet rod to install my Sky. The closet rod had to be shaved down a bit to fit into the bottom of the Sky. The tether[IMG_0489(1)] ball pole is just the right height. There is water in the base to help keep it stable.

Mount is now up and awaiting my Sky ! I ended up using a 10 foot vinyl wrapped wood closet rod that I purchased at Lowe’s for $18.78 (thank you Lowe’s for the everyday 10 % veterans discount). I have the rod installed into a roof mount tripod that held my previous weather station. This will put t…

That closet rod is an interesting find! My shipment spent 24 hours in Hong Kong yesterday, and is now also in transit to the next stop. I’ll be outside with the binoculars watching for the flight into JFK Airport flying over my house in a little while…

That’s looks good. I will have to try wood and see how well it dampens vibrations. It seems it might preform better than PVC. [image] 926darkblue: thank you Lowe’s for the everyday 10 % veterans discount) Yes! Lowe’s and Home Depot get a lot of my busines.

[image] Well I had a 5 foot aluminum pipe and a 10 foot steel pipe. The 5 was too short for my liking and the 10 foot steel was fairly heavy. I saw the vinyl wrapped closet rod and was impressed by the no warp claim as well as not having to paint it like an unfinished one. It’s also very light wh…

Sounds like our orders may have been shipped in the same batch.

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les_jeanne August 2, 2018, 5:10pm 195

Modified satellite dish mount with metal fence post/top rail. Just waiting for the Sky now.

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