Diy sliding barn door.
Barn door tracker plans.
You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but you may give up some stability.
Main menu barn door tracker build guide build plan drive bolt assembly build enhancements laser alignment tips for best results results accuracy polar alignment gallery.
The barn door tracker was created by george haig.
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.
Today i have a beginners guide to building a barn door with free plans and a video tutorial.
The floor guide keeps barn door from swinging out and potentially jumping off of the track.
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.
Build guide for an easy to make metric barn door tracker for astrophotography.
Cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces.
His plans were first published in sky telescope magazine in april 1975.
Building a barn door is not hard if you have some basic woodworking skills and good directions.
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.
Modified versions of the tracker were published in the magazine s february 1988 and june 2007 editions.
This will allow you to slide the door open and also close the door by simply moving it from side to side.
Assembly setting up your door tracker.