Making A Barn Door Tracker

Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces.

Making a barn door tracker.

Two basic types of barn door trackers exist. We bought everything from the home depot. As mentioned above the barn door tracker works by joining together two boards and then moving them apart at a specific rate. Movement is done with a drive rod connected to either a motor or a hand crank.

Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours. Two nylon locking nuts. A single arm tracker is just a hinge with two pieces of wood. Mostly hand tools were used with the exception of a mitre saw to get the ends for the hinge.

You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but. Making the hangers and door stops. Barn door track diy tutorial. 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.

A mean sidereal day is 23 hours 56 minutes 4 0916 seconds 23 9344696 hours this is the. Attach the piano hinge to the edge of the board with screws and screwdriver. Build a motorized barn door tracker. Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts.

Create your own barn door track hardware. One piece of wood attaches to a tripod and the other to your camera.