yep....incubator is outside, had to put it inside the coop to cover the direct sunlight.....now temp is in a constant 99-100.5.......i'm trying to figure out how to make a turning handle to have it from the outside and something to use in order to prevent the heat flowing out where the handle is supposed to go out......still in the process......
i don't have any pics on how i started buyt it's pretty simple. i just gutted everything out of the fridge and with a jigsaw i cut off the division between the top freezer and fridge. i removed the fan used in the bottom of the fridge where the compressor goes and used it inside the bator for forced air flow. i drilled a small hole to get in the electric cord for the light bulbs and screweed them in replaced my thermostat waffer (using it on another bator with emu eggs, needed to maintain the temp constant) with a water heater thermostat which works great also. the spy window was cut also with the jigsaw, it's all foam and plastic, just a thin metal cover that goes on the outside of the fridge everything else is foam and plastic and that's about it.
man that is awesome and i would love to build one, but i would never have the eggs to fill it lolfinally i went ahead and started working on it. not to much work either.............i left it on its back, built a tray 54 inches in lenght and 20 inches wide with 2x4, nailed a wire mesh on its bottom, i punched holes on the bottom of egg cartons to let the air flow from the bottom of the eggs (capacity of cartons in tray = 178 eggs). I then screwed 2 brackets on the bottom part of the tray and slid a 54 inch broomstick thru the brackets, i then slid the broomstick on each end of the fridgebator (2 holes were made to slip in the broom stick) and BOOM....that's it.....i now can manually turn all 178 eggs at one time in 3 seconds kind of works like a see-saw. Anyway got all excited .....AGAIN!!!....and headed out to my neighbors farm and got me another 200 eggs but could only fit 178......darn
how my fridgebator used to be....
Modifications for easy manually turning of eggs....
yep....incubator is outside, had to put it inside the coop to cover the direct sunlight.....now temp is in a constant 99-100.5.......i'm trying to figure out how to make a turning handle to have it from the outside and something to use in order to prevent the heat flowing out where the handle is supposed to go out......still in the process......
Well, while the incubator is incubating, and you're still turning the eggs, you won't have to worry, but on Lock down, I suggest getting 2 pill bottles to plug it up the 2 holes, or getting some PVC caps to cap the holes.
Here's a picture of what I do when I take the egg turner out of my cooler incubator.
