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There’s a third, where the first person puts on thingiverse and we do it for fun without owning the actual unit
China mastered copying things well. A five pack of replacement knobs that actually match is $34 on Amazon. A crappy homemade knob for a $4000+ range is crazy.
China has also mastered modern slave labor. That someone makes thier own replacement instead of ordering some small uncomplicated part from across the globe isn’t crazy, it’s self-reliant and smart.
But that’s, like, just my opinion man.
Oh I would go for the OEM part ten times out of ten, especially for such a nice appliance. Instead this person opted to make some plastic waste that will eventually be in the Ocean after we are all long dead.
Completely agree that Amazon garbage is terrible for humanity
I’m sure the prison firefighters out in California are real mad about China mastering modern slave labor
And Bosch makes and generally stands by their good products. Yeah they’re a company, but they’re not the worst!
Also, where did original knob go, I need to know.
Some things are better left unknown.
So one is creative and solution seeking and now proud about himself and an inspiration to others and the other one – not, but just a thief.
The thief inspired me.
If the knob on your stove breaks while it’s still new enough to be sold on the floor of a Home Depot? Yeah, the theft wasn’t by the guy who took the knob.
If the knob of your new-bought stovebreaks to talk to the seller or the manufacturer and request a new knob if it was a manufacturing problem. You don’t go around and steal knobs from innocents.
Hone depot hardly qualifies as “innocent”…
Lol.
This reminds me of a story my mom told me over the holidays about buying a fancy sweater at Sears one fall. By mid winter the zipper had broken and she went back to Sears but they didn’t have a replacement, and she didn’t want a refund. They eventually agreed to have her take it to the tailor in the mall for them to replace it, and they would cover the receipt. She did and they did.
Blew my mind. If I honestly thought I could contact Maytag or Bosch and actually get someone on the phone to send me a replacement knob, I might bother. But I’ve moved past “try to contact the company with a reasonable concern” a long time ago. Which is what they hope for and why they make it time consuming and pointless. I’ll take the path of least resistance.
If home Depot goes out of business because of all the stolen knobs, I’ll cry myself into Rona every day (I mean that, I hate Rona and I use HD daily)
Home Depot is not innocent.
-Anti-union
-Massive donation and lobbying efforts to Republicans and Democrats (but they definitely go harder with Republicans, if you look at the numbers, and they’ve donated specifically to white supremacist candidates)
-Underpaid employees
-Violated the National Labor Relations Act NLRA
Fuck 'em
Shoplifting is a noble crime.
Just a thief?? That’s creative, solution seeking, and ecologically conscious problem solving right there
Ecologically conscious would have been getting it from some shop that fixes and recycles appliances.
Those stopped existing when it became cheaper to just throw the whole thing out and buy a new one
Yes, he’s just a thief. The ends don’t justify the means. I can’t believe that needs to even be said.
He’s an active initiator of the broken windows theory and thus not only a thief but acting anti-social by destroying virtues and morale and thus social safety, coherency and teamspirit. He’s a selfish sociopath.
Broken Window Theory is a load of bollocks: https://cssh.northeastern.edu/sccj/2019/05/21/researchers-debunk-broken-windows-theory-after-35-years/
He’s a selfish sociopath
Sure, being a thief is bad, but one case of theft doesn’t instantly make him a CEO.
Thats going to be a squidgy mess after a long cooking session. Hope he doesn’t get plastic burns.
I think something might be wrong with your oven uh… my knobs don’t get anywhere near the glass point of PLA when I’m cooking something.
I’ve always got a spool of high temperature PLA for that, good for up to 140°C.
I don’t have a setup for ABS/ASA and been looking for affordable HT alternatives. Not sure how I haven’t heard about this.
2.5x the price of PLA where i am, but not like I have better options on hand.2.5x the price of PLA where i am
Yep, I usually print drafts in normal PLA and only the final part in the high temp stuff, but 2.5x is often still better than buying something if there’s even a solution available. So, fine for me in edge cases.
That’s a humongous oven, must be a 10+ person household.
I ended up with 8 hobs, 2 ovens, a grill, and a drawer on mine. It was there when I moved in, and I kept it. Damn thing is built like a tank.
I’ve never had to use more than 2 of the hobs at once.
I use one of the ovens for storing rarely used pans and things.
That sounds like the 48" Miele. If so, hang on to it. That son of a bitch currently retails for $17,599.
No, that is not a typo.
Not as fancy as that unfortunately.
It’s 100cm across and the branding has long since worn away. I think it used to say Panache on it at one point, but I can’t find anything about that brand online. Following a trail of spares that look like the stuff on it, it was possibly made by Newhome.
I’d take a picture but I’ve not cleaned it in ages so it looks like something out of a crack den.
And yet it runs with gas, as if we’re still cavemen cooking meat over open fires.
Its the cheapest ¯\_(ツ) _/¯
90cm.
We have one for our 4 adult, 2 kid household. Its amazing how often it’s not big enough for all sorts of things.
I think 2 X 60cm ovens make more sense in hindsight and they also dont take as long to heat up
Or its the house people designated as the holiday house, maybe! Only actually used fully a few times a year.
That’s my house. We have dual ovens and use them simultaneously several times a year, mostly holidays.
Channel locks, adjustable wrench, or plyers are also acceptable. Plus then ya know damned well where they are.
This is why I always buy cheap vice grips whenever I see them in a box of tools at an estate sale or something.
“Oops, I broke a handle on (thing).”
Clamps vice grips on the bit left over
“Fixed it.”
Right now both of the seats in my truck just have a vice grips for the reclining lever.
I had my shower knobs as vice grips for a long while
The two types of players
My oven is so old I came across an identical one in an e-waste pile behind a store. I stole the timer knob and mechanism so I don’t need to keep using it on manual anymore.
You didn’t steal it, you 💫recycled💫.
*Reused, which is preferred to recycling even if the materials are 100% recyclable.
That’s what I told to the store employee I encountered coming to work via the back door. He wasn’t too happy but ultimately let me do it.
Imaging being mad someone is taking your trash.
Imagine getting mad someone is taking your employer’s trash.
YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A BOSCH OVEN KNOB
DON’T TELL ME WHAT I WOULDN’T STEAL
What about the old vice grips that are now a permanent part of the stove trick?
Man, all the sinks I’ve seen over the years with vice grip knobs haha.
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix.
I’d eyeball the measurements in Blender and laugh at my crooked knob every time I use the stove.
You’re still putting too much work into this. Just heat up the metal shaft where the knob was with a torch and press any old hunk of thermo plastic onto it. Now you have janky done even more quick and cheap.
I laugh at my crooked knob all the time.
I also laugh at it.
That’s at least better than his wife. She laughs and points.
Little sanding and silver Rub 'n Buff on that print will make it look a lot better and closer match to the rest.
Or even simply moving it to the middle of the set of three for less distraction.
I like to keep the 3D printed look for spare parts, because its a good conversation starter and it often blows peoples minds if you tell them how cheap it was to produce. I was able to get at least 6 people into 3D printing now that way.
And if you need guards for your knobs, I designed some after bumping mine and turning on the gas more than once.
Maybe I’m missing something obvious here, but how do you use the stove?
You push the knob in and turn it. The guard goes around the knob, but doesn’t stop it from turning.
If people have little kids, or dogs that like to “counter surf,” guards are a pretty much a must (we just took the knobs completely off when our kids were little), acquaintances of ours lost their home to fire when the dog counter surfed and turned the gas stove on. I don’t remember what caught everything on fire that was on the stove, but they lost everything, and it killed the pets too.
Yeah, we had a different stove when our kids were small, and it had the knobs at the back of it.
I think some newer stoves will automatically shut off after a certain amount of time when the gas is on but no flame is detected.
They should buy some paint so it matches the other knobs.
But what the hell happened to the other knob? I’ve done a lot of stupid shit around the stove but I can’t imagine what could happen to it.
Kids are a force
Wait you have kids and still sink money into crypto shillcoins? 😬
Pro tip as a 3D printer owner/user though:
Oftentimes for small elements like this you can just contact the company and they’ll send you a knob or whatever. (Probably won’t be that lucky on repair parts though)
But I also enjoy the pride of seeing things I’ve repaired and longevitized with my own equipment. :)
