Making A Barn Door Tracker

Two basic types of barn door trackers exist.

Making a barn door tracker.

Barn door track diy tutorial. Two nylon locking nuts. Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. Build a motorized barn door tracker.

Movement is done with a drive rod connected to either a motor or a hand crank. As mentioned above the barn door tracker works by joining together two boards and then moving them apart at a specific rate. 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.

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. 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.

One piece of wood attaches to a tripod and the other to your camera. 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. Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts. 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.

Create your own barn door track hardware. Drill clearance holes by marking the holes.