Making A Barn Door Tracker

Two nylon locking nuts.

Making a barn door tracker.

Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours. Movement is done with a drive rod connected to either a motor or a hand crank. 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. You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but.

As mentioned above the barn door tracker works by joining together two boards and then moving them apart at a specific rate. The hinge joining both boards is pointed at the celestial pole and a drive bolt is turned to move the top board which counters the rotation of the earth and prevents star trails. 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. Making the hangers and door stops.

Build a motorized barn door tracker. Two basic types of barn door trackers exist. One piece of wood attaches to a tripod and the other to your camera. Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces.

We bought everything from the home depot. Drill clearance holes by marking the holes. Attach the piano hinge to the edge of the board with screws and screwdriver. 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. Barn door track diy tutorial.