http://www.stormthecastle.com/how-to-make-a/guest-incubator.htm
http://msucares.com/poultry/reproductions/poultry_plywood_incubator.html
http://www.utm.edu/departments/cece/idea/incu.shtml
These are great links for incubator ideas, ESPECIALLY MSUCARES!!! There's sooo much great information about chickens and such on there, including diseases and parasites, including the nasty, vile, devil-prasitic worm in Florida called Gape Worm.
And I got ideas for my incubators from these. Loved the ideas so much, that when I learn how to use a power saw or whatever it's called, I'm gonna make the one on Msucares! I actually made a drawing of it. A dang good, legible one~
Oh, and i had a chickie hatch! It's soooooooooo cuuuute!!! It's an americaunaXbuff cochin! It's got all the great features from both breeds and it is a yellow and white colour! It's actually in great health for an upside-down hatcher that required help and chewedmy our the whole way.
And on the incubators:
Moetrout: good luck with it! It's beter insulated than all my incubators. I don't. Worry too much about insulation, as long as I have a great heat-source in my incubators. Whiiich, I had to add foam tape to insulate mine because it was too cool. Now, I can't get the darn thing to cool down enough, lol! I have to put a bunch of water in it, and have found out where it DID stay nice and accurate at. It maintains humidity well, so it's my hatcher. I believe I have a picture of it. It's successfully hatched 2 chicks, 2 coturnix quail chicks, and 10 button quail. They were all test eggs and rejects from other things. I'm surprised my quail actually hatched, since my quail had just started laying. Also: I have a cooler lust like yours but red. I use it as a water bucket because I have no room for something I can't stack or put stuff on. And as for a candler, go buy a smaaall LED flashlight that'll fit snugly over the top of your eggs. A flashlight also works, but it's harder to see through dark-shelled eggs(which are daggun near impossible anyways).
And the other person on the previous page who made a nice 'bator: lookin' good! I hope you get at least a 50%! And when I say that; it's highly likely I'm right because I'm rarely wrong on intuition. Unless it's with my eggs because I JINX myself and have a bad batch. My VTD was rather pathetic.
Mohillbilly: you're an expert from what I've read from what you posted on, what was it, the "warning: don't buy from custom incubators" forum. Do you have any tips for us newbies and rookies?
Rgvchicks: wow just wow. I LOVE YOUR INCUBATOR!!! That's a total 10! Best I've seen yet; you've used your space well! I'm so glad you posted these pictures!
I was gonna say something else... but I kiinda, sorta... forgot... oh wait! Just remembered: I gotsta go look at the links posted... that aren't mine, coz I seem to be posting more links than anything..