Making A Barn Door Tracker

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Making a barn door tracker.

One piece of wood attaches to a tripod and the other to your camera. We bought everything from the home depot. 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. Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours.

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. Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. Barn door track diy tutorial. Mostly hand tools were used with the exception of a mitre saw to get the ends for the hinge.

Drill clearance holes by marking the holes. Two basic types of barn door trackers exist. A single arm tracker is just a hinge with two pieces of wood. Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts.

Two nylon locking nuts. Build a motorized barn door tracker. Movement is done with a drive rod connected to either a motor or a hand crank. Attach the piano hinge to the edge of the board with screws and screwdriver.

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.