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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.
The saving on the knob alone would pay a reasonable chunk of a basic but useful printer. Use it for a few more things and you’ll be in the black even ignoring the more fun things you might do. The time it takes to learn a CAD system can also be fun if you enjoy that sort of thing.
I’m proof. My first printer is currently worth like $25. Maker Select V2. Still works great. I learned FreeCAD and enjoyed every minute.
As someone who replaced his Maker Select Plus with a Bambu Lab P1S a few months ago…if you do get a new printer, be prepared to be angry for a moment.
I spent so much time and effort improving that thing over the years, and the modern printer was so much better right out of the box. 😅
(Not that I don’t still have a fond place in my heart for my old bedslinger. A friend has it now, so it’s still chugging along.)
Haha yea I did, actually. A few months ago I built a Voron 0.2. It’s soooo much better in every way. But the MS2 is still capable, especially with upgrsdes (just not with ABS). I decided against the Bamboo route because I loved the FOSS nature of the MS2, and building the Voron brought back those ‘first time building a PC vibes’. It was a great experience.
I’ve got a Sovol Max on order, so the MK2 will probably also be donated to a friend this year.
Nice! I’ve considered a Voron, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to dedicate that much time to the printer as opposed to the printing. (I feel like I got my fill of excessive tinkering already 😅)
But the closed nature of Bambu does bother me, I’ll admit.
Yea, I was told I “have a 3D printer hobby, not a 3D printing hobby”. 😆
I loved building the Voron, but did decide to go with a Sovol instead for the larger machine to both avoid the build and have a larger volume.
The 0.2 was great because it was cheap, didn’t need to be my main printer at the time so I could be patient with it, and it is blazingly fast, especially heat up time since the bed is so small.
compooter + printer still go brrrrrrrrrrr
More of a brrrrr zoop zoop eeeeeeep save me brrrr doop ding please zrrriiippp scooop
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.
I would just like to say that 70k people isn’t a small town. I live in a town with 9k people in it. Now that’s a small town.
Only 9k people? That’s not a town, that’s a village.
/s
9k? That’s a major city. I lived and worked in an area where the 9k town about an hour away was the bee’s knees for the folks where I was, which had a great!!! city of 2,500, and the rest were unincorporated places of a hundred or so at the crossroads.
Shoot, I just moved to town under 1k.
I have wasted a bunch of time making things, but like woodworking or similar trades, it’s fun and rewarding.
Hence, why it’s not “wasted” time.
My printer has saved me more than its cost in useful stuff I have printed.
There are places which will print out your model for a small fee on their own printer. There are even places which will allow you to use their printer if you come with your own filament (for example makerspaces) and maybe donate a little bit to support them.
As for CAD itself, there’s a nonzero chance that someone already designed that part for themselves and you can download a ready model. If not, then by designing it yourself you’re acquiring a skill that can be useful again in the future and you can share that model with others to get that warm fuzzy feeling that you’ve helped strangers who had the same problem.
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Learning a new and useful skill is not “wasting” time at all.
You can’t put that in quotation marks like I ever said something about wasting time. You just have to include all that time in your cost calculation.
Not really, no. If you’re learning something not only that you like, but that it’s also useful and that you will you use many times in the future, I wouldn’t consider that to be part of the “cost”.
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.
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.
The day big corporations stop stealing from the workers is the day I care about stealing from them. That day will not come.
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.
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.
Oh, are we confessing to
minorthefts? Let’s see, what’s beyond 7 years old…A Hogwarts robe clip from a Halloween costume
$12 in expired powerbars
About $200 in assorted mediocre liquor from some wedding
4 posters from bus stops for the Scooby-Doo movie
A 1999 Ford Explorer
7 Playboys and a bag of old coins
97 million kisses from my missus
(Edit: the largest thefts are the kisses)
I’m telling the missus that you think her kisses are only minor theft worthy!
At scale, it’s a felony, I promise!
I used to shoplift handheld electronic games, stuff like Electronic Quarterback by Coleco. I was a paper boy and I would walk into stores with my bag around my shoulder and just grab games off the counter and slip them in the bag. What blows my mind now is that this was even possible - this was the late 1970s and apparently I was something of an innovator because the stores never suspected anything or searched kids, and the electronic games were just sitting out on counters. It wasn’t long after this that stores started only allowing two kids into the store at a time and shit like that, and searching them when they left.
You’re welcome, subsequent generations of would-be shoplifters! You’ll never know just how fucking easy we had it.
A Hogwarts robe clip from a Halloween costume
Shame on you
I once ate the baby carrots from the grocery store, right off the display. I am not sorry about it.
I don’t think there’s anything in that story to be sorry about.
I did a similar thing, not because my knob broke though, I just didn’t like the heiroglyphics bosch designed 😅
ßake? Must be Japanese.
The B looks like the German ß which makes the s sound. That would make it say sake, which is a Japanese kind of alcohol.
From a cost-savings perspective it’s actually kind of genius, cause now they don’t have to localize the text for multiple countries. Just produce one stove, throw a °C/°F setting on the display for the Americans, and profit.
Both are appropriate responses to the bullshit that is oven knobs.
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.
Knob from your crush? Priceless.
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.
Or you just do the most practical thing and order a $2 replacement from Amazon/Aliexpress
How much time it takes for a regular cad user to draw such a knob?
Lol “regular CAD user”
Eh eh, I mean someone who can draw quite good, not a beginner.
I mean, we exist.
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
Below chad CAD user.
I spent less than an hour to design these guards for our stove, and most of the time was on how it looked. I wanted it to be functional, but not look too out of place.
That link doesn’t load for me? I’m really interested in what you designed. I tried turning my WiFi off and use cellar in case my pihole was interfering but that didn’t load either. Any chance the link formatting got messed up or something?
https://www.printables.com/model/278668-stove-knob-guard
Not sure why it’s not working for you. I tried it with a couple of browsers in incognito mode and it works fine for me.
Weird, I can get to it now. Thank you so much for following up and sorry for wasting your time. Those guards are really cool, it isn’t what I envisioned at all, your approach is really sleek!
Thanks. And yeah, Thingiverse and Printables (and others, but those are my two go-to’s) have tons of useful items as well as fun things.
Also, holy crap, there is a ton of useful stuff on that site, I had no idea, I am starting to feel like I need a 3d printer now. Wow. I wish I could get a really good quality one for less but I would rather buy once and hurt once. There are a lot of creative ideas I would have never even thought of from a practical use standpoint.
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.
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
That’s actually hilarious, i never thought about that when i see missing parts in stores.
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
They’ll get an even better deal then given the missing knobs! Or the store will just foot the bill for the replacement knob that they can probably get for less than the consumer price
Well they’re available on eBay…
