text: YouTube member dinthisane shares his first DIY video, and it's pretty clever. Using some ready made inexpensive 'Skate Buds' available online, he was able to create a very effective rotating video dolly. All you'll need is a flat base plate and a Tripod Head or Fluid head. It's a very simple way to go about mounting wheels without creating axles. As you can see these things are designed to carry a bit of weight too. You can find these little Skate Buds below.
  Roller Skate Wheel Skate Buds via eBay
  Roller Skate Wheel Skate Buds via Amazon
  For a cheap sturdy head, you can should check out the one that we used on the Korean Clone of the SpiderTrax dolly found here: http://cheesycam.com/test-drive-spidertrax-clone-korean-dolly/
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  Posted in Cheesycam Skater Dolly, DIY Equipment, dslr stabilizer, Equipment Reviews, Video Dolly. Tags: diy spidertrax dolly, rotating video dolly, skate buds on March 27, 2011 by Emm.
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  4 thoughts on “Very Clever DIY SpiderTrax Rotating Dolly”
  Emm
  Post author March 28, 2011 at 8:53 am
  @HD-tography - Yeah a flat plank of wood and a jigsaw should get you a custom baseplate. Some jigsaws can even cut thin sheets of metal too.
  HD-tography
  March 28, 2011 at 8:26 am
  The spidertrax dolly is going to look so awesome in the dark now that its wheels light up in a fantastic light show on every shot! Thanks Emm!
  But seriously, the wheel base doesn't look very wide, even when extended all the way, so you couldn't use a standard cheese plate like the glidecam weight plate, but you would need to craft something like the reviewer did, in the shape of the FLYCAM Nano baseplate such as on other DIY builds, in order for the wheel assembly to attain a usable radius without running into the plate/base.
  Alam
  March 27, 2011 at 10:00 pm
  As actual skates those things look horrible.
  But as a "spidertrax dolly" they look amazing!
  J Hanna
  March 27, 2011 at 9:30 pm
  Slick.
  I made my out of Skateboad wheels/carriage and a cheeseplate with a bolt in the center to mount the tripod head (elevated by about 20 washers.)