My Hatcher & Incubator!

[Dmitrys]

Hopefully mine turns out nice like yours! I really am hoping to hatch tons of ducklings!

all will be fine! I know!

 

[Nyla]

So here is my new progress!
Cut and made my hatching baskets. And lined them with shelf liner so the eggs wouldn't rest on the hardware cloth. Baskets and shelf liner where from Dollar Tree!


Next I took light sockets and hot glued them to the lid of the jars and put a light bulb in them. These will be part of my humidity setup. They will heat up the water.
Got a case of 12pk 32oz jars for $5 on sale. Hot glue gun is a mini glue gun that I bought for $5 as well. They glue sticks were bought from Dollar tree!



Today I recived all the parts to get the incubator up and running!
These temp and humidity gauges actually match up with one another! Tested them and they are accurate!! In the pictures I only let them sit for about 5 minutes. I didn't get a picture of them all matched up because camera died!! These handy items were bought from ebay for 2x 14.99. I bought 2 sets making it a total of 4 for $29.98


Today I built all my turning trays and stapled hardware cloth on the bottom.
The red egg trays were bought from ebay for $13.99 for 6 of them.



This is my work bench! Isn't it nice? Yup that is pallets!!
I just bought the Miter saw yesterday, and let me tell you something!! That miter saw is amazing!! Sames tons of time and I low it! Costed $59.99


These are how I plan to pivot my turning trays! Clevis Pins! Bought these from ebay for $9.99 free shipping.


OHH here is an amazing HACK! BOBBY PINS!! When I ordered my Clevis pins online, I thought they came with the cotter keys. WRONG! It was only Clevis Pins. So I went to Menards to buy Cotter Keys and they were very pricey! So I bought $4 worth which was only 24 keys! So when I got home, the cotter keys were too big for the first two slots of Clevis pins!! So I pulled a bobby pin out of my hair and tried it! It works!! Fits all my Clevis pins too!



Here I marked my center holes and drilled! I also drilled my connecting holes as well.

 

[Dmitrys]

So here is my new progress!
Cut and made my hatching baskets. And lined them with shelf liner so the eggs wouldn't rest on the hardware cloth. Baskets and shelf liner where from Dollar Tree!
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Next I took light sockets and hot glued them to the lid of the jars and put a light bulb in them. These will be part of my humidity setup. They will heat up the water.
Got a case of 12pk 32oz jars for $5 on sale. Hot glue gun is a mini glue gun that I bought for $5 as well. They glue sticks were bought from Dollar tree!
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Today I recived all the parts to get the incubator up and running!
These temp and humidity gauges actually match up with one another! Tested them and they are accurate!! In the pictures I only let them sit for about 5 minutes. I didn't get a picture of them all matched up because camera died!! These handy items were bought from ebay for 2x 14.99. I bought 2 sets making it a total of 4 for $29.98

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Today I built all my turning trays and stapled hardware cloth on the bottom.
The red egg trays were bought from ebay for $13.99 for 6 of them.

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This is my work bench! Isn't it nice? Yup that is pallets!!
I just bought the Miter saw yesterday, and let me tell you something!! That miter saw is amazing!! Sames tons of time and I low it! Costed $59.99
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These are how I plan to pivot my turning trays! Clevis Pins! Bought these from ebay for $9.99 free shipping.
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OHH here is an amazing HACK! BOBBY PINS!! When I ordered my Clevis pins online, I thought they came with the cotter keys. WRONG! It was only Clevis Pins. So I went to Menards to buy Cotter Keys and they were very pricey! So I bought $4 worth which was only 24 keys! So when I got home, the cotter keys were too big for the first two slots of Clevis pins!! So I pulled a bobby pin out of my hair and tried it! It works!! Fits all my Clevis pins too!
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Here I marked my center holes and drilled! I also drilled my connecting holes as well.
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exellence job! )))

 

[Nyla]

Thank you!!
This is my new progress! I just couldn't help myself! I had to understand how it would work. This is a prototype.

 

[Dmitrys]

o I pulled a bobby pin out of my hair and tried it! It works!! Fits all my Clevis pins too!

 

[Nyla]

I thought it was funny too! Made me super happy that I didn't have to spend more money! Cotter keys are expensive!

 

[Dmitrys]

I had to understand how it would work. This is a prototype.
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One thing. I cant write it in English, just try to show by a pic

 

[Nyla]

I planned to connect the trays all together with one straight Stock metal once I get some. Just like your diagram! Glad I had that right! Should I do only one connecting beam or one on both sides like my proto?

 

[Dmitrys]

I would recommend that you remove the middle pin

 

[Nyla]

Oh yeah today I'm going to hook up the crock pot heat element to my thermostat and see how well it works with heating the Hatcher part!