Maintenance for Bat Wing TV antenna

Maintenance for Bat Wing TV antenna

Maintenance on the Bat Wing TV antenna:

An annual application of silicon spray in the little lubrication hole on the bat wing TV antenna base (on top of your RV) will keep keep your Bat Wing Antenna moving around smoothly. However, if your bat wing TV antenna is hard to wind up or down--------------- it is time for you to get on your roof and lubricate the exposed gear at the base of your Bat Wing when it is laying flat. Have your significant other put the antenna through its paces (up down and around) to spread the lubricant around.

Keep in mind that your bat wing TV antenna needs to be lubricated for both the up and down motion (that requires lubricating the large gear) and the circular motion that enables the antenna to rotate in different directions that is accomplished with silicon spray in the lubricating hole.

The circular motion is lubricated by inserting the lubrication in the small lubrication hole on the bat wing antenna base on the top of your RV. That lubrication hole generally has a plastic cap on it that has to be pried up. Use a small straight slot screw driver or a knife blade. Be careful to not misplace that cap because you will want to replace it when you are finshed. Keep in mind that all you are lubricating with this lube spot is the circular motion of the antenna.

The up and down motion of the Bat Wing TV antenna utilizes a gear that must be lubricated. Lubrication of this gear must be accomplished from the top of the motorhome. With the antenna laying flat you can see the gear. Spray it with silicon spray then run the antenna up and down a number of times to lubricate the worm gear that spins in those gear teeth that you are lubricating. DO NOT use WD-40 it will degrade the gears. Instead of using silicon spray I use left over lubricant from my garage door gears. Garage doors have nylon gears that require lubricant and I seem to have those handy packages of grease that come with those nylon gears. That grease tends to stay on the Bat Wing Antenna gears much longer than the silicon spray.

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