Little Giant Donated!It's GROSS! Help me use the parts elsewhere?

[DawnSuiter]

A friend of my husband donated an LG still air bator to our cause. Unfortunately this thing is totally disgusting, stored in a barn out of the box, rats eating through the bottom, the top covered in much so that it looks brown and a missing window. There is a turner with these spiky plastic thingies, I haven't plugged anything in of course.

It's really gross... and as I sit here fruitlessly trying to stabalize my homemade styro bator, I was thinking.. maybe I could use those parts from the yucky LG and make something else. I asked some questions in the chic chick bator thread, but I'm guessing that threads been beat to death and no one clicks there anymore. I read all 34 pages twice, sad, I know.

Any ideas how to use this heater coil with a different thermostat? it's missing the dial, I have never seen any of these before.

what would you do with it?

 

[mr.majestik]

Shoot yeah scavenge the parts off of that thing and make a nifty incubator. It's a wafer style thermostat and the dial can be replaced with just about anything that will fit in there. The heating element and egg turner alone are worth the trouble.

 

[chickenfanatic]

what do u mean missing the dial is there a white peg stivking in the top there was never a dial setting on these that i know of if theres the lil peg sticking up that ur dial im in the process of building a bator with the scavanged parts of my old lg ill post pics soon u may have urs done first though mine will be a few days

 

[DawnSuiter]

No dail! Wow, yes the peg is still there, I didn't know that's all there was!

There doesn't seem to be a thermostat, perhaps it's missing? I think I'll get a pic for you guys later...

How large of a bator could I make with this single coil? could I make a two teir (two racks tall) bator?

 

[chickenfanatic]

yes u could in theory make a 2 stage the elements do put out a pretty good amount of heat so u never know i think itd work. now on to the thermostat the peg goes through the foam and connect to a plastic kinda flat looking thing with what looks to be an electronic or circuit board or i should say it should. that electronic board in the plastic casing is ur thermostat.