Cabinet style Inbubator

[msheets]

I'm building a cabinet style incubator & would like some opionions please. What would be better, using a dresser (any wood) or a refridgerater? What's the best for heating, lightbulbs or something else? What's good for adjusting the temp, a dimmer or will other things work? Does anyone know of good shelves/racks that can be bought or found easily? Any other advice would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[Mahonri]

Just buy a Sportsman or a Dickey.

Tried, true and proven.

There is a gal here in AZ that had great luck with a dimmer switch and bulbs....

 

[crossedwires]

old fridges are well insulated and make great batots so i would vote fridge

 

[duckluck]

I guess the question to ask is, are you doing it for the pleasure of building something yourself and finding a way to make it work, or for budgetary reasons? Because if it's for the budget, I would buy a used cabinet incubator instead of trying to troubleshoot a homemade one...and possibly ruining lots of eggs in the process. What starts out as the cheaper way to go may not end up that way.

 

[Sportsterjeep]

Fridge would work, mine is a pepsi cooler that you would see in a supermarket. Got it for 25 bucks because the compressor didn't work. I was gutting the junk out anyway so I didn't care. And........it has a nice clear door to watch everything.

 

[bigdawg]

i bought mine from a man who builds cabinets. its made out of three quarter inch advantec flooring. 4x8 sheets. and 2x4s. it has two gqf egg turners, a 6 inch fan ,two gqf thermostats, hatching trey at the bottom, its built alot like a sportsman. it also has a false wall in the back so the air from the fan pulls air up from the bottom and blows it out the top pass the heating wire heating strips from a old wall heater. air circulates top to bottom all the way around. i would post pics but i havent figured out how to