Barn Door Tracker Plans

Diy sliding barn door.
Barn door tracker plans. Cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. The other possibility is that the door could be smaller allowing you to attach it with hinges. His plans were first published in sky telescope magazine in april 1975. This will allow you to slide the door open and also close the door by simply moving it from side to side.
Build guide for an easy to make metric barn door tracker for astrophotography. Today i have a beginners guide to building a barn door with free plans and a video tutorial. In this tutorial i m going to show you step by step how i built a 36 sliding barn door from scratch for under 200. The barn door tracker was created by george haig.
You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but you may give up some stability. After installing 4 barn doors here in vt i like the kind. It can make for an appealing unique addition to any home and to get you started i m including the free downloadable plans for th. That means we want to spin our barn door tracker at a rate of 360 degrees every 24 hours which comes out to be 0 25 degrees per minute.
Building a barn door is not hard if you have some basic woodworking skills and good directions. Cheap and simple to construct with diy build plans photo gallery and mp3. The track is where the rollers will go for the barn door simply inserted over the top. Modified versions of the tracker were published in the magazine s february 1988 and june 2007 editions.