Changing the color of your dish

[dptw27]

thanks to stealthdragon101 for this post
Can I paint the dish antenna so that it blends in with my house?
We do not recommend painting your dish as it may cause signal loss. If you do decide to paint your dish, do not get paint on the front cover of the LNBF (the white plastic cap that faces the dish), and avoid latex and metallic paints. We also recommend that you use as few coats as possible as more paint will increase signal loss.


Step One

Identify the color in which the satellite dish needs to be painted. Look for a high quality outdoor paint that does not peel. Request that the home improvement store salesperson recommend quality paint.
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Step Two

Buy non-glossy paint with a dull finish. Always go for non-glossy paints. Glossy, semi-glossy and metallic paints make the dish antenna extremely shiny, thereby increasing reflection of the signal to the LNBF. This causes signal loss and will disrupt satellite TV reception.

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Step Three

Clean the dish with solvent (cleaning lightly with paint thinner), let dry, and sand lightly ... spray with an enamel flat paint... (Lightly as in just fog or mist) let dry (four minutes. flash time, depending on the temperature for drying time.) and respray again very lite.... DO NOT COVER HEAVY WITH PAINT, OR THIS COULD INTERFEE WITH SIGNAL)

take precautions to protect the LNBF from getting any paint on it.