Make Barn Door Tracker

Barn door track diy tutorial.

Make barn door tracker.

Insert the t nut from the top side of the board and pound in with a hammer drill another hole in the very center of the board for another t nut. The mount shown here employs a type 4 double arm design. Pound in the t nut with a hammer. Create your own barn door track hardware.

Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts. Making the hangers and door stops. 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. Two nylon locking nuts.

The double arm design was first described in an article by dave trott published in the february 1988 issue of sky telescope magazine. This will allow you to hook up the tripod to the tracker. We bought everything from the home depot. Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours.

Drill a hole just big enough to allow the insertion of the t nut. 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. First cut the 500mm length in half and mount 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 barn door is a specialized type of equatorial mount.