Making A Barn Door Tracker

While it s possible to make a bracket to attach the motor off to the side where it is on my barn door tracker i chose to mount mine in line for a more compact assembly.

Making a barn door tracker.

Don t want to build your own. Hang the diy sliding barn door. Diy barn door hardware the track. First cut the 500mm length in half and mount the hinge.

You ll also need a nut driver bit to drill the hex screws into the barn door track. Attach a small rubber band. Use a small rubber band to keep the two boards on the turning bolt side sandwiched together. Once all of the holes are predrilled and the wheels are assembled you can attach the barn door track to the piece of furniture.

What type of wood do you use to make a barn door. We bought everything from the home depot. This is a simple but useful upgrade. With the track mounted finish the job by putting the door on the track.

By 2 inch steel flat plates 13 99 each four 1 1 2 inch steel spacers about 6. Https amzn to 2cx7rp0 square splinter version of the popular diy rustic barn. Okay now that our disclaimer is in place here goes. The main difference is that the body of the hinge tracker is just a hinge so there aren t any plywood parts to cut.

You can find a set of bits here. Carefully roll it into each end to determine where to place the stops. We are hoping you can make some sense out of it and take what you can from it. Make sure everything is square and moves freely clap the 2 hinged boards together and shout action a few times like they do when making movies if it makes a nice clack sound it should work well for a star tracker now measure 228 55mm from the center of the hinge pin down the middle of the board and mark the drive rod holes do this on.

Mount the end stops bottom guides and any other hardware according to your specific set of instructions. It consists of two boards connected by a hinge with a bolt which is turned to move the two boards apart or towards each other to counter the effects of. Build the door steps 2 10. Diy barn door hardware painting.

Hang the door step 11 13 before you begin measure the width of the door from the outside edges of the casing then order a hardware kit with a track twice that width. Here is a link to a good budget set of hardware. A barn door tracker also known as haig or scotch mount is a camera mount used to take long exposure photographs of the night sky without the star trails caused by the rotation of the earth.