Two nylon locking nuts.
Making a barn door tracker.
Attach the piano hinge to the edge of the board with screws and screwdriver.
Making the hangers and door stops.
Mostly hand tools were used with the exception of a mitre saw to get the ends for the hinge.
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Barn door track diy tutorial.
Build a motorized barn door tracker.
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.
Two basic types of barn door trackers exist.
Create your own barn door track hardware.
Four 3 1 2 inch lag bolts.
As mentioned above the barn door tracker works by joining together two boards and then moving them apart at a specific rate.
We bought everything from the home depot.
Drill clearance holes by marking the holes.
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.
Movement is done with a drive rod connected to either a motor or a hand crank.
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.