Building camera dolly with track part 3…
Today I decided to finish up the camera dolly project by building the track. The track consists of two aluminum tubes six feet long and four 1″x3″ pieces of wood cut to around 20 inches. I attached the two tubes to the four pieces of wood by first drilling a large hole in the top of the tube to allow the head of a screw and the drill bit to pass into the inside of the tube and then a smaller hole directly opposite of the larger hole to allow the screw to pass into the wood. In between the tubes and the wood planks, there are four washers. Two rubber washers sandwiched between two metal ones to allow further vibration dampening. And since there is only one screw attaching each tube to each plank of wood, the whole track easily collapses allowing easy transport. The final result is quite amazing. It rolls extremely smoothly, and if I needed to, the track can be expanded.
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