Making A Barn Door Tracker

You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but.

Making a barn door tracker.

This sliding door track can be made for under 100 including wooden wheels track the ebook available in the blog post provides a full list of the tools and supplies you ll need. Barn door track diy tutorial. We bought everything from the home depot. A single arm tracker is just a hinge with two pieces of wood.

As mentioned above the barn door tracker works by joining together two boards and then moving them apart at a specific rate. Drill clearance holes by marking the holes. Two basic types of barn door trackers exist. Build a motorized barn door tracker.

By 2 inch steel flat plates 13 99 each four 1 1 2 inch steel spacers about 6 two 4 inch pulleys 4 78 each four 1 inch fender washers. Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts. Making the hangers and door stops. Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours.

One piece of wood attaches to a tripod and the other to your camera. Mostly hand tools were used with the exception of a mitre saw to get the ends for the hinge. Create your own barn door track hardware. Attach the piano hinge to the edge of the board with screws and screwdriver.

Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. A mean sidereal day is 23 hours 56 minutes 4 0916 seconds 23 9344696 hours this is the.