Making A Barn Door Tracker

Movement is done with a drive rod connected to either a motor or a hand crank.

Making a barn door tracker.

Drill clearance holes by marking the holes. 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. Mostly hand tools were used with the exception of a mitre saw to get the ends for the hinge. Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts.

Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours. Attach the piano hinge to the edge of the board with screws and screwdriver. Making the hangers and door stops.

Two nylon locking nuts. Create your own barn door track hardware. Barn door track diy tutorial. As mentioned above the barn door tracker works by joining together two boards and then moving them apart at a specific rate.

A single arm tracker is just a hinge with two pieces of wood. 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. You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but. 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. Two basic types of barn door trackers exist.