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[–] JamonBear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some poor sucker is going to eventually buy the display model tho

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well they're available on eBay...

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] abir_v@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Look dude, fuck those ants.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Once you have the printer and the knowhow, it takes like 5 minutes to draw and 20 minutes to print at a cost of like 0.10 €

It takes longer to go to a location and buy it at a much higher cost. So why should you?

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Its also something you built with your hands and brain. There are few things which feel as good.

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 152 points 2 days ago (15 children)

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.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 47 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can dip it in shiny paint too. Its not stainless steel but its good enough

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No worries, the OEM ones aren't stainless steel, either. They're "stainless appearance," i.e. plastic with a thin veneer of cheesy chrome plating that's about one molecule thick.

You can electroplate 3D prints by using a basecoat of conductive spraypaint, and then the limit of the thickness of your plating is only really limited by your patience. Nickel is quite easy to do at home.

[–] abir_v@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I quite like electroplating with titanium. Can vary the voltage for some great colors too.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With free returns and having a size difference in my feet I may (or may not) order 2 different sizes of the same shoe and end up returning one.

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[–] Bobby_shmurda@sh.itjust.works 83 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago

Both are appropriate responses to the bullshit that is oven knobs.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

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.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (19 children)

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.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

LG wants me to pay $45 for a single official replacement.

Amazon has a whole set for $14.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I did a similar thing, not because my knob broke though, I just didn't like the heiroglyphics bosch designed 😅 20241215_164503

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] kepix@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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I recently re-did my kitchen floor with 1' square peel-and-stick vinyl tiles. After buying four boxes (30 tiles each at $45 a pop), I ended up exactly one tile short. I was sorely tempted to go back to Home Despot and slip one tile out of a box - obviously people do this a lot there since there are always open boxes in the tile section. In the end I just pieced the last tile out of scrap bits, in a spot where it really wasn't obvious. I don't need a fucking shoplifting charge at this stage of my life.

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