Save Your Sanity! LG Incubator Thermostat Knob Adaptor

[ranchhand]

I saw reference to this a couple years ago and even though I didn't have an LG then, the concept stuck.
I recently got an LG to use as a hatcher and now I know why so many complain about getting the temperature just right- that dinky stick knob is useless.

Here's the fix- it's the cap from a 16 oz. juice bottle with a 7/32" hole drilled in it. That is a bit small so I carved a little more with my pocketknife, until it fit snugly. Credit to DH for the bottle cap, I was thinking of wood when he spotted the cap!

It makes it much easier to adjust in tiny increments.

 

[jenlynn4]

I thought about doing that too!!! I just never knew what to use, now I do! Thanks for posting this! JEN

 

[Wegs813]

Thanks for posting this. I wanted to put something on mine but was not sure what to use...and now I know!

 

[ranchhand]

I just wonder if LG isn't forgetting a part- that is still pretty sensitive to adjustments.

 

[Louise's Country Closet]

I LOVED that idea!! Now hopefully I remember that when I get around to incubating next year, lol

 

[ranchhand]

It's working well, so far. I really can dial in on a temp more easily. Once I really get it stabilized I'll mark it with a line at some of the temps I want to use. And glue the cap in place permanantly.

 

[jenlynn4]

what kind of juice bottle did you get that off of. Its nice and flat looking all mine are to tall.

 

[ranchhand]

Quote:
DH says it's from a 16 oz. orange juice bottle, fron the convenience store. (which means he's paying way too much for juice!)

Oh, if it's too tall? Cut it down or turn it upside down.

 

[Tala]

Looks like the top off a Gatorade bottle to me, they are always wide and flat like that. The OP's came from juice I see, but Gatorade is pretty easy to find too.

 

[rebel yell]

you can use most any kinda knob, mine came off a old radio, & it does help out 100%.