My 0$ knob

I feel like this parallels the story about spending of $10 million to research and develop a Space Pen vs just using pencils.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Amazon has a whole set for $14.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.