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I feel like this parallels the story about spending of $10 million to research and develop a Space Pen vs just using pencils.
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I feel like this parallels the story about spending of $10 million to research and develop a Space Pen vs just using pencils.
The problem with pencils is that in space broken graphite floats around easily and is conductive. A conductive powder floating into something electronic in a pressurized oxygen rich environment is no bueno.
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You can dip it in shiny paint too. Its not stainless steel but its good enough
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.
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Oh yes! The correct answer is to 3D print a plastic knob for the front of an oven. There's not going to be any heat issues there! And no one can deny how beautiful that black knob looks next to the brushed metal.
The knobs on your oven are overwhelmingly likely to be either completely made of plastic or contain a large percentage of plastic already. Typically they're made of ABS or PBT.
PLA probably isn't a good choice for this application but you could absolutely print some knobs in ABS or ASA and you'd be fine. You can even get PBT filament, but that's probably more hassle than it's worth and ABS is cheaper.
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The problem with pencils is that in space broken graphite floats around easily and is conductive. A conductive powder floating into something electronic in a pressurized oxygen rich environment is no bueno.
Graphite powder is also quite flammable isn't it?
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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.
I quite like electroplating with titanium. Can vary the voltage for some great colors too.
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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.
Look dude, fuck those ants.
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Graphite powder is also quite flammable isn't it?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm not sure, but with that much oxygen in the air I'm sure anything could "become" flammable, especially when atomized or turned into a powder. That's why grain silos on farms are fire hazards; the dust.
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I feel like this parallels the story about spending of $10 million to research and develop a Space Pen vs just using pencils.
Not that BS story again...
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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
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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".
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I'm pretty sure baby carrots are prewashed.
Edit: Oh, perhaps you don't know this. In which case, I'd love to be the one to tell you: baby carrots are just cut up regular carrots.
Even if they're prewashed, they're lying in a crowded supermarket on display all day. You don't know who touched them and who sneezed on them, but you can know for a fact, someone did, and most people don't wash hands.
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ßake? Must be Japanese.
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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.
