The secret ingredient is crime
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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.
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.
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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.
My printer has saved me more than it’s cost in useful stuff I have printed.
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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.
My printer has saved me more than its cost in useful stuff I have printed.
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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.
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I'm proof. My first printer is currently worth like $25. Maker Select V2. Still works great. I learned FreeCAD and enjoyed every minute.
compooter + printer still go brrrrrrrrrrr
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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.
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You can accidentally hit a knob and break it while moving the appliance itself. As for losing them, sometimes you knock one loose and it rolls under the fridge, and it's not worth the effort of moving a large appliance out of its nook just to get the knob back. Shit happens.
Maybe you were just a miracle child who never has accidents. Who knows?
I have never had a range where the knobs are at the front, so that’s probably part of it. They’re much safer at the back.
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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
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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?
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I did a similar thing, not because my knob broke though, I just didn't like the heiroglyphics bosch designed
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I'm so glad I learned THEFT
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Aluminum casting is fun and cheap.
I know my limitations. One of them is patience.
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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.)
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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
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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
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.
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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
Back in the day, that was solved with a vice grips. This is because vice grips are the wrong tool for everything, but the right tool for not having to go find the right tool.
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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
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.
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I did a similar thing, not because my knob broke though, I just didn't like the heiroglyphics bosch designed
wrote last edited by [email protected]ßake? Must be Japanese.
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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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I did a similar thing, not because my knob broke though, I just didn't like the heiroglyphics bosch designed
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
