Making A Barn Door Tracker

Create your own barn door track hardware.

Making a barn door tracker.

We bought everything from the home depot. Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. One piece of wood attaches to a tripod and the other to your camera. Movement is done with a drive rod connected to either a motor or a hand crank.

Drill clearance holes by marking the holes. Making the hangers and door stops. You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but. Build a motorized barn door tracker.

Mostly hand tools were used with the exception of a mitre saw to get the ends for the hinge. 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. 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.

Attach the piano hinge to the edge of the board with screws and screwdriver. Two nylon locking nuts. Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts. As mentioned above the barn door tracker works by joining together two boards and then moving them apart at a specific rate.

Barn door track diy tutorial. A single arm tracker is just a hinge with two pieces of wood.