How To Make A Barn Door Tracker

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How to make a barn door tracker.

Choose a spot and drill and install 2nd tee nut for bottom tripod mount. A barn door is a specialized type of equatorial mount. A followup appeared in the april 1989 issue. The only part that you would need to purchase is the flat track.

Drill 1 8 holes for 1 8 rails on bottom board and slide them in. Drill hole for ball mount on top board. Two 3 1 2 inch one set wooden wheels. You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but.

The double arm design was first described in an article by dave trott published in the february 1988 issue of sky telescope magazine. We bought everything from the home depot. Drill clearance holes by marking the holes. The mount shown here employs a type 4 double arm design.

Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours. Diy barn door track hardware tutorial supplies needed 1. First cut the 500mm length in half and mount the hinge. We are hoping you can make some sense out of it and take what you can from it.

Assembly setting up your door tracker cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. 29 000 months 300 days 62 hours and 59 minutes of setting up an ecommerce store and having wooden wheels made we have a fantastic way of selling the wheels or full door track hardware kits to you. Fortunately if you don t have the money to purchase a 1 000 equatorial mount but still want to take long exposure astrophotography the diy barn door tracking mount above will enable you to. Mount camera and have a friend help balance it to try to figure out where the center of gravity is on the bottom board.