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.

You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but. 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. 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.

A single arm tracker is just a hinge with two pieces of wood. A mean sidereal day is 23 hours 56 minutes 4 0916 seconds 23 9344696 hours this is the. Drill clearance holes by marking the holes. As mentioned above the barn door tracker works by joining together two boards and then moving them apart at a specific rate.

Build a motorized barn door tracker. Making the hangers and door stops. Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts. Attach the piano hinge to the edge of the board with screws and screwdriver.

We bought everything from the home depot. Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours. Two nylon locking nuts. Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces.

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. Two basic types of barn door trackers exist.