UPDATED with new pictures OLD INCUBATOR???

[Madcap621]

I am almost certain that my GFs bator had a wafer-type thermostat. It somehow activated a venting system, but I have no idea how it worked.

 

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The one pictured did use KEROSENE and I found one in a barn on the farm I was renting at the time. I rented the house just 'cause I needed the four bedrooms. I took off all the old metal fittings, connected a water bed thermostat to a bunch of those big bulb Christmas Lights from the old days. They were found in the attic of the farm house and all of this was about 17 years ago here in Ohio. It did have all the legs and the shelves also, I took the legs off and set it up on a super old chest freezer that was full of Mason jars (the colored ones with zinc and porcelain lids) in the cellar. My Land Lord who was 85 at that time then explained that his mother used it hatch chicks and how it worked with the kerosene and laughed while wishing me good luck with the tree lights and waterbed thermostat. The house was built in the early 1870's and had huge limestone cut blocks for the foundation, I used the contraption (as he called it) for 3 years hatching ducks, geese, turkeys, and guineas replacing bulbs with ones from flea markets as I found them. Underground water flow through a spring house out to the pond and heavy spring rains in 2002 caused the foundation on west side of the house to give way. Floor joists with tree bark still on them from a 140 years ago and weighing many hundreds if not thousands of pounds fell to the floor. Everything old and new was totally destroyed.......I have found out that the 'bator would be worth a bunch of cash in todays market but more, so could have been made operational just like new. Is the one pictured worth a hundred dollars?????..............that and more............!!!!! have ya just tried buying a vintage egg scale recently??????????