Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 07 3:00 pm Post subject: Egg-candling thing
I'd like to make a candling device, and I have a rechargeable torch which only works when plugged in. It will stand up firmly on its base, and the lights quite strong.
I'm sure there must be an easy way to make a candler from it: but how?
chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35934 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 07 3:28 pm Post subject:
Can you make a hole in a piece of cardboard, say about a CM across, to focus the light; and then shine the torch through it?
mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 07 3:30 pm Post subject:
Chez wrote:
Can you make a hole in a piece of cardboard, say about a CM across, to focus the light; and then shine the torch through it?
The way I'm feeling today, only possibly.
mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 07 3:43 pm Post subject:
OK forget I ever started this. It's obviously much easier than I thought: I've looked at a few on-line. I think I was imagining some sort of miniature dark-room for eggs.
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 07 12:10 pm Post subject:
2steps: those are interesting sites. I'll have a closer look later. The old chap was impressed with my idea of making something useful from something he thought was useless! Looking forward to showing him developing chicks through our home-made candler!
Mochyn
I'm a simple chap as you know and so is my way of candleing eggs.
I get a cardboard box, a fairly biggish one will do. I then take an egg and a pencil and put the egg in the middle of one of the sides of the box. I then trace around the egg with the pencil and cut the egg shape out of the cardboard.
Place the egg on top of the hole that you have just made and hopefully it will just rest there without falling through.
You are now armed with what is essentially all you need to candle your eggs.
Wait until night time and then whip the eggs out of the incubator or from under the broody.
You then need a torch with a strong beam.
Place each egg on the hole. Stick hand and torch into the box and shine the beam up and through the egg. In the dark you will be able to see all the details of the developing egg.
The good ones after a couple of weeks or so will show as being solid ( dark to black ) with a clear air gap showing at the top.
When my technical asistant comes in from work I'll nick some illustrations of what to look for and get her to post them.
Failing that, if it will help I have a small handbook on incubation that I would only be too pleased to lend to you.
Let me know.
mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 2:49 pm Post subject:
I should have just asked you in the first place, shouldn't I, Bodge!
. Doesn't have to be!
and so is my way of candleing eggs.
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