The secret ingredient is crime
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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.
I use needle nose multiple times a week in this TV! Haha
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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!
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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
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Once you have a printer, there are repositories online with models for just about anything. I've used Printables, and Thingiverse is another option. Someone may have already solved your problem by posting a usable model, just need to print your own part. Otherwise you can design one. Been using Solid Edge from Siemens, they have a free version for makers. Also used FreeCAD in the past, which worked, but wasn't happy with it. It now has a 1.0 release though, so probably worth trying out. They're going to require spending some hours learning to do designs properly, but once you figure it out you can sketch up all kinds of great things. I love being able to send my parts through the slicer software, then over to the printer, and out comes what I want. Learning CAD, or modeling software like Blender, gives you a lot more options with your printer.
Appreciate the info, I'm stoked to start learning!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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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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 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.
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Taking from e-waste dump isn’t a crime it’s quite the opposite. If you can make use of it instead of it poisoning the ground, kudos!
crimes don't care about "ethics"
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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.
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I'm so glad I learned THEFT
I know right? They need to teach it in schools!
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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.
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.
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]Maybe that's what happened to the original knob. Years ago someone bought a stove and the knob broke so they stole their neighbours as a replacement, thus starting a tit for tat, reciprocal crime wave that swept the nation.
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LG wants me to pay $45 for a single official replacement.
Amazon has a whole set for $14.
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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!
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
