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You can save so much money with CAD if you neither factor in your time to actually learn it or the cost of the printer itself.
Makes crime even better in comparison.
Here in Canada every major library I’ve been to has a 3D printer you can use, either for free if you bring your own filament, or for a very small fee to use theirs. I live in a small town of 70,000 people and our public library has a 3D printer.
Someone else I know got a printer and got bored printing with it after a bit and said I can print on it whenever if I toss them a roll of material every now and then.
I ended up finding all kinds of useful things to print. I made a connection piece for a sink that had a garbage disposal removed when I couldn’t find the fitting anywhere and after 3 years it’s holding up fine. I made a set of cams for a washer that randomly stopped spinning one day and those have been working nicely. Just a bunch of times it ended up coming in handy.
I learned this from my dad… When I was young, we had a plumbing leak on a Sunday night, p-trap was leaking. All places were closed, so he went to a McDonald’s bathroom and stole theirs to replace ours.
20 something years later, my faucet was leaking. It was a discontinued model from a brand owned by home Depot, though they still had the display model up. Remembering what my pa did, I took the display model apart and took what I needed.
lmaooo that’s why bathrooms in those places now have the minimal setup to work properly. Good to know that I can be part of the change.
From this story alone I have several ideas of what your accent is, also this is the type of shit my kin would pull. I’m more of a "how many parts can I daisy chain while maintaining no leakage, my record is 12 which was the minimum needed. I hope an actual plumber never looks at my bathtub plumbing cause the faucet is certainly doing things much like my computers cable management.
I am interested in what you assume me accent be, though I’ll give ya some hints and you tell me where I’m from…
My wife teases my pronunciation of butter and water as they come out as “budder” and “wooder”, house roofs as “woofs”, and I call water creeks “cricks”. She also laughs at me when I get angry \ passionate as I become louder and sound like “one of those Italian gangsters from the old bugs Bunny cartoons”. And she’ll repeat back to me, exaggerated, “whaddya talkin about?!” as I seem to ask her that before every debate…
Well initially I was gonna guess North Eastern Coastal, or perhaps some of the less known accents from Western Appalachia but I’ve known folks from around Bakersfield who pronounced water, butter, and creeks like ya so I ain’t got no fucken clue. It’s one of those things where its got overlaps with but not totality with accents I do know, even my own accent does the budder thing. But now I ain’t so certain.
Philadelphia! Very astute, my friend. Where are you yourself?
I somewhat thought that getting an education, working white collar, social media, and living in Europe the last 6 years that I would have of lost my accent. Hence why I found your comment so interesting!
SoCal more specifically Inland Empire San Bernardino foothills.
Also your accent stay with you hell it can even stay with your kin depending on various factors. My accent is basically just an old regional accent but if I get pissy enough it rapidly devolves into a bastardized brogue. But yeah I find dialects and accents interesting especially in how they mutate diverge and reconverge.
Also if you are at all curious I pronounce it budder, wader, and rooves.
Why are people breaking/losing knobs on their ranges in the first place? I’ve never done that in 4 decades. Seems like an extremely unlikely thing to do.
I would have said the same thing but the enshitification isn’t just for the web anymore - I had a ‘quality’ name brand refrigerator and snapped the drawer down the front because I pulled on it a little too hard. Those things used to be bulletproof but now they’re flimsy crap.
Yep happen to our fridge. Not mention it quit working after 2 years of use. Now buy mine off FB market place. Why bother buying new.
Enshittification is probably a large part. However, I can see it.
Our’s are plastic, 25 years old, and look like crap. Wash them all you want, they just look dirty all the time. I’d replace them except for the absurd cost for a piece of molded ABS.
I take them off to wash them. I can imagine someone having an accident with one, like washing them in dishwasher and having one fall down onto a heating element. Those are big, but our’s are small enough to get knocked down onto the garbage disposal - it would’t be easy, and would require an unusual sequence is events, but I’ve fucked up even more unlikely sequences of events in my life.
I really wish I could get decent aluminum replacements for our’s; it wouldn’t make the range any newer, but it’d make it look nicer than the black plastic shit that it came with.
Aluminum casting is fun and cheap.
I know my limitations. One of them is patience.
I was thinking the same thing? Who are these animals that somehow destroy a metal knob on a commercial-style $8000 Bosch oven that is made of stainless steel?!
Those knobs probably aren’t metal, but plastic with a metal plating.
If I paid the obscene amount of money that those things cost I’d be mad as hell if the knobs were made of fucking plastic.
My only guess is that they have children who steal the knobs and flush them down the toilet or something. But the knobs on those high end models are pretty huge which means they would probably get stuck and refuse to flush down.
Some guy once broke into my brother’s backyard and stole the lid to his BBQ. Just the lid.
Sounds like a tweaker preparing to join a Roman Phalanx
Gods spread Romaboo tweaker!
Ours is a cheap model, but the knobs are held on with a plastic housing inside the knob similar to that middle plastic tube that holds keycaps center on keyboards. Im constantly worried its going to break when i take them off to clean.
I’d like to take this opportunity to say sorry to all the people that ended up buying the WD-40s I stole the straw off of.
Man, i mean while we’re fessing up to these things…
If you bought a PC gamer magazine from Barnes and noble back in like 2004 and the demo disc was missing, I’m so sorry.
While I don’t do it myself, I don’t consider stealing from big name stores theft and am, actually, completely morally fine with it. Will not report somebody stealing even if I see them.
Let’s not forget the rampant wage theft across the entirety of the US, much less the ongoing grift they’re pulling on its citizens re: “shoplifting”, etc. being the big scary Evil — when wage theft stats completely destroy the charts in comparison to all other commercial/consumer theft, including misappropriation by employees! 😡
TL;DR: Stealing from big corps isn’t theft. It’s a civic duty, at this point.
Had to read like 50 comments and nobody pointed out you can just buy a generic knob for like $1. Hell your used building center would be 50 cents. WTF world do we live in where the solution is CAD and 3D printing for something so trivial. It’s like using a nuclear bomb to kill an ant nest.
Look dude, fuck those ants.
Both are appropriate responses to the bullshit that is oven knobs.
I like this because then the display is broken in the same way it will actually break when someone buys it. It’s like warning others of the issue. It’s really a public service when you think about it lol
this.
bought a ratchet belt from a large box store. comfortable. but it needs 2 tiny screws what will eventually fall off making it garbage.
so whenever that happens, I go to that store with a precision screwdriver in my pocket, and take a screw from a new belt. given that it’s too late to get it exchanged.
did that a couple of times until I realised a drop of cyanoacrylate will stop them from falling off.
ain’t going to buy the whole product because they didn’t test their products and left it to me to fix them
It’s like that with sooooo much stuff these days! Quality assurance became a thing of the past as of the late first decade in 2000. They just don’t care. Make shit to die in a week or a month but again. Rinse repeat. If you have the skills to make parts with a 3D printer that’s an awesome solution.
There is a brand of glue called Loctite that sells popular thread locking glues for this exact purpose and works very well. They make different strength adhesives for different applications, all their thread-locking glues start with code ‘2’. The common ones for general use around the home for use with small screws / nuts & bolts and removal with hand tools is 222 / 242 / 243 (higher number, larger screw/bolt gauge width).
Just adding this info for anyone else looking for a similar solution.
yhea, that’s the exact glue i mentioned.
just didn’t want to use any brand name.
theres was a weird scratch on the shower box when i bought it from obi. turns out somebody stole the drain cover cause their box had none…so i went back and stole a new cover from a new box. this is probably a domino effect.
I’m so glad I learned THEFT
I know right? They need to teach it in schools!
Own experience: If you hang out with the right group of kids in highschool you can learn how to walk out of a Kaufland with entire liquor bottles without paying. So they kinda teach it in schools.
My secret trick?
I’ve been using the same stove for a quarter of a century. Was here when I moved in.
The trick is: the knobs don’t come off. (In the extremely unlikely chance they might come off, I, like, just put 'em back in. I guess. Not that it happens!)
Looks like they don’t build them like they used to!
Kids today just don’t know the joys of sticking paperclips into the knob-less posts and then trying to guess what each stop on the knob does.
LG wants me to pay $45 for a single official replacement.
Amazon has a whole set for $14.
Why not both. 3D print one and swap them at Home Depot. Or heck 3D print all of them, replace them all, keep the one you need and sell the rest on eBay. If they all match, I doubt Home Depot would even notice.
Some poor sucker is going to eventually buy the display model tho
Could someone point me in the right direction to get started on projects like this? Specifically I have an old Emerson CRT that the volume/power knob is missing on and it’s impossible to find an OEM replacement. I’ve been dreaming about getting into 3D printing to print my own, but I don’t know where to even begin considering I would need the exact dimensions of the D shaft and then to model something. Appreciate any help, thank you in advance <3
The first time I took on modelling a replacement part, I took as many measurements with a caliper as I could, fired up Fusion 360 and just went for it with no prior experience. It is actually really intuitive and all you need to do is visualize how simple shapes like circles and squares can be used to construct the object. Basically, don’t be scared of starting out and try to break down the object into simple and approachable parts.
My first object was a kind of transmission cog, so a very cylindrical object, much like yours. All you really should need is the diameters of different “circles” comprising the model and the cylinder heights.
This sounds like a great path for me, I love driving in head first. I appreciate you!
There are lots of things I would like to fabricate I just suck at 3D software. Fusion 360 easy?
To me it became easy once I realized that Fusion 360 is not Blender. You’re not sculpting a model. You’re essentially just writing mathematical equations (“constraints” in CAD lingo) that produce the desired 3D object. For example, let’s have a flat circle as a base with diameter x, then we extend it into the third dimension with length y, and so on. Once I realized how it works, it became much clearer to me what to do, because I literally just need to express my goal to the computer et voilà. I’m having a difficult time translating what I mean into words, but perhaps you can remember doing some kinds of geometric constructions in elementary school like a perpendicular line through the middle of another line. That’s exactly what CAD feels like to me.
That’s very clear, thanks. I’ve done some before but only in Google Sketchup which in my opinion is incredible, and a shame it’s not available on more platforms for free. Anyway thanks it sounds pretty straightforward.
I know there’s also something free online that’s a web-based creator; I forget at the moment which it is but it looked pretty easy.
Thanks, I appreciate your response.
There’s https://lemmy.world/c/3dprinting where you could get more answers. The yt channel TeachingTech has some good series on getting into various parts of it (basics of printing, part design, machine maintenance, etc.). There are many other resources.
I appreciate the links! I’ll do some learning 😁
Honestly, if you only have that one specific application in mind, might be more cost/time-effective for you to pay someone else to 3D print/ship the part for you, instead of getting into all that yourself just for the one use case.
I’ve had that thought too, but I’m a tinkerer and I dream of printing parts for my random protects. I appreciate the suggestion though!
