Thanks wwd and everyone else.
I know that I shouldn't give up on the bator, and I'm not going to. I'm going to keep trying to fix it and if all else fails, I will use it as a hatcher/brooder box and get an incubator for my birthday.
I have 4 eggs from our chickens waiting on me; I have until this Sat. and Sunday before it's too late(it will be a week without being incubated by then, and after a week of no heat, I've been told that it's too late). So I can keep them with no heat for as long as a week and still incubate them, but after a week they are no good.
I was hoping that after I made some air holes, changed the light bulb, changed the humidity method, etc. I would be able to start it up and put the eggs in it with little to no problems.
I asked my mom if she knows a lot about wiring and she said that she does;
I never knew that! She never really did anything with wiring and I didn't think she would have any experience with it. So I can get a PC fan from somewhere(not sure where) and my dad knows about how to wire those up too. So my checklist for this week is:
-PC fan
-thermostat (water heater lower thermostat, is that correct?)
-lamp kit
-Walkswithdog's advice!
Hopefully I will be able to get these on time. If not, it's not that big of a deal because they are from our own chickens and they are just test eggs. But I was hoping for these test eggs to be the first to hatch in the bator.
Thanks again so much for the advice; I will try harder to get this bator working right without tossing it out the window.