Okay I've got a Humidaire incubator that you can tip back and forth to rotate eggs. Problem is if eggs are not tight against each other if you would turn the incubator the loose eggs would roll into each other so hard they would crack and break. Same thing with my old Brinsea 190 Ova Easy. If the eggs wasn't secured by the plastic strips in the trays when it was time for them to rotate they too would get rolled into each other.
The other night during a hatch-a-long and a few glasses of Merlot I had a brain fart. Problem is I'm not the best carpenter or cabinet maker out there. It's really a simple design that is actually a long tube the eggs will be held in. The tube is actually a 4 piece arrangement with one piece made so it can be removed to add more eggs. There will be many of these egg tubes inside the incubator and each end of these tubes will be attached to a chain. Chain is held in place along the walls of the incubator by sprokets. Then a low rpm motor will continually move the chain with the egg tubes that are attached. Eggs will go up to the inside height of the incubator and then they will go down the height of the incubator. Eggs will actually be upside down as they travel downwards. By the chain continually moving very slow each egg tube will always be moving up or down inside te incubator.
Imagine a 2ft wide by4ft deep by 4ft high box.Peafowl eggs are not much wider than maybe 3"s so in theory with the bator being 24" wide you could have 6-7 rows of egg tubes. If egg tubes for this example are say 38" long (have to leave room for sprokets that hold chain in position) each tube could hold 10-12 eggs.Each egg tube could be positioned about every 6" on the chain.
24' of chain,egg tubes every 6" apart would give you 48 egg tubes with 10-12 eggs in each tube. I have the basic idea of how this would simplify turning eggs while keeping them secure. What I don't know is someone that is good at woodworking. Anyone here have time to tinker and knows how to construct cabinets of wood peices? My idea is very simple in design.I'm suprised another big incubator company hasn't done this already.
It maybe easier for me to make the cabinet part out of steel since I'm not good at woodworking.Another driving force is what I see new cabinet incubators selling for in the neighborhood of $1300. It's only a thinly insulated box with very easy electronic components that has been in use for decades already.I like to build things anyway but does anyone wanna be a "case study" and possibly be interested in one?
The other night during a hatch-a-long and a few glasses of Merlot I had a brain fart. Problem is I'm not the best carpenter or cabinet maker out there. It's really a simple design that is actually a long tube the eggs will be held in. The tube is actually a 4 piece arrangement with one piece made so it can be removed to add more eggs. There will be many of these egg tubes inside the incubator and each end of these tubes will be attached to a chain. Chain is held in place along the walls of the incubator by sprokets. Then a low rpm motor will continually move the chain with the egg tubes that are attached. Eggs will go up to the inside height of the incubator and then they will go down the height of the incubator. Eggs will actually be upside down as they travel downwards. By the chain continually moving very slow each egg tube will always be moving up or down inside te incubator.
Imagine a 2ft wide by4ft deep by 4ft high box.Peafowl eggs are not much wider than maybe 3"s so in theory with the bator being 24" wide you could have 6-7 rows of egg tubes. If egg tubes for this example are say 38" long (have to leave room for sprokets that hold chain in position) each tube could hold 10-12 eggs.Each egg tube could be positioned about every 6" on the chain.
24' of chain,egg tubes every 6" apart would give you 48 egg tubes with 10-12 eggs in each tube. I have the basic idea of how this would simplify turning eggs while keeping them secure. What I don't know is someone that is good at woodworking. Anyone here have time to tinker and knows how to construct cabinets of wood peices? My idea is very simple in design.I'm suprised another big incubator company hasn't done this already.
It maybe easier for me to make the cabinet part out of steel since I'm not good at woodworking.Another driving force is what I see new cabinet incubators selling for in the neighborhood of $1300. It's only a thinly insulated box with very easy electronic components that has been in use for decades already.I like to build things anyway but does anyone wanna be a "case study" and possibly be interested in one?
