I actually ordered this with our Gen 3 Dishy, but it had just been recalled, so the new one wasn't going to be shipped for weeks. We found an alternative and cancelled the order. Boy, am I glad!

Thanks for posting this! My Gen3 equipment is due to arrive later this week, and my tentative plan was to buy this mount (once I settle on installation location). The third-party adapter you show does indeed look less bad than Starlink's (due to the depth of the receiver), but the circular shape is a fundamental flaw when the pipe is a smaller diameter than the receiver. They should instead be using a triangle, with a pair of set screws centered on one side. The set screws would press the pipe against the centers of the other two sides, providing far more support and eliminating the side-to-side wobble you showed on the roof.

Came to the same conclusion you did when I first open the box upon receipt a few months ago. But you didn’t address the most interesting question: how did a company comprised literally of rocket scientists (who were able to figure out how to land a rocket booster upright on a floating barge in the ocean) design such an obviously flawed simple product as a bad pipe mount? I’m assuming that Elon didn’t work on this…. But who did? Even a summer intern would have been able to do a better job!

After aligning the dish, I put a self tap screw in it. The mount is secured to the Viasat lo pro real good now.

How did you remove the Starlink pipe adapter from the dish?

thnx bro living in NC with all the wind we get during hurricane season that pipe adapter starlink sent will not hold up.😁😁😁

Actually this is the best accessory. It's steel and won't flex in the wind at heights 25' in the air. To secure it drill a small hole with a titanium drill bit and feed an eye bolt through, then add a second eye bolt through the pole as a cross bolt before tightening up with nylon lock nuts. Couldn't be more secure and cheaper then just about every other option with the added benefit of height. Holds up in storms no problem, might want to lower the telescoping pole 5 - 10' but personal preference, likely not an issue unless a tornado is headed your way. I even fly old glory and take it camping.

Try using locktite pn the setscrew. It shouldn't work it's way out.

Does anyone know how to remove that adapter once installed without damaging the dish so I can replace it?

Who's idea was this? I can hardly believe a serious company anywhere on the face of this earth had enough confidence in a design so bad that they packaged and sold it to people when it's failure would cost them hundreds each. There are multiple people Elon needs to fire or find lessor jobs for over this.

.. why not just send the Bolt .. ⁉️🤨🧰👨‍🔧