Line up the brackets and mark the holes on your door frame before drilling them out.
Making a barn door track.
Two nylon locking nuts.
5 2 holes were drilled at the top of the door for which the nipple fittings will fit into.
Then take them to the drill press or use a drill to drill the holes for the carriage bolts.
If you make it longer just add a few more spacers with hex screws along the track for added support.
How to make a diy rustic barn door and hardware know your options for barn door hardware.
Be careful when drilling to avoid any tear out.
Create your own barn door track hardware.
Also explore interactive features that will help you select the ideal sliding door frame and rail and hanger.
The supplies can be a little bit overwhelming so i m listing them below with links so that you can find them in hardware store.
The ones we used and the ones i wish we had purchased.
Barn door track diy tutorial.
Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces.
Making the hangers and door stops.
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.
Learn how to create your own barn and commercial sliding door systems with 3 easy steps.
Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts.
We bought everything from the home depot.
To start cut two pieces of the flat bar steel to make the brackets that hold the wheels to the door.
Drill clearance holes by marking the holes.
6 with the casters installed on the bottom the holes drilled on the top i got the door in position and measured out where the plumbing pipe track should be installed.
A sturdy hinge two wood planks a 1 4 20 threaded rod a nut in the base board a drive crank that could just be a vice grip and a tripod mount are all that a photographer needs to build a tracking unit that can provide an image with reasonable.
To determine the door width add at least two inches to the width of the opening or to the outside.
Here are the supplies you ll need for one barn door.
Before you start shopping for barn door hardware take a careful look at the.
Straight rod barn door trackers are without equal the easiest type of astrotracking unit to make.
So let s build it.
Diy barn door hardware the supplies.
The wheels support the door and the track keeps the door in place.
You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but.
Attach the piano hinge to the edge of the board with screws and screwdriver.
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.
Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours.
If you are building two barn doors double the supplies.
