The two ways of fighting profiteering

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Glass transition temp of PLA is around 55-60C - that’s when it starts to get malleable. I’d be pretty surprised if the oven knobs get that hot.

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Tbh I'd say more like 30 cents for that, but yeah.

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No, it doesn't.

The recent 1.0 release is actually very good. It is probably better at this point than some of the entry level commercial options and most importantly compared to those is not intentionally hobbled in any way.

The time for everyone to stop parroting how "everyone knows" that FreeCAD is unusable is... now. You can go ahead and delete that one; it's time to learn a new soundbyte.

MeatPilot

\DM: Roll a D20 for a stealth check.
\Rouge: I bat my eyelashes.
\DM: Huh, misread your character sheet. I'll allow it.

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I wish I had pockets big enough to replace the flimsy Bosch drawers in my fridge that start to shatter as soon as you pull just a tiny bit harder than normal.

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Rogue is not spelled rouge.

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Not really. You can print it out of ABS easily enough if that's a concern, given that there is a good chance that is what the knob on any given residential range or oven is likely to have been made out of by the factory anyway.

As a matter of fact, since this is directly in my wheelhouse (not that wheelhouse, the other one) vis-a-vis both 3D printing and whitegoods, let's take a look.

Being in the unique position to be able to do so, I grabbed a knob off of a random smattering of ranges. Here's what I found from the ones that didn't require taking them apart further to find the markings or scraping at them with a knife or something (hey, there's the other wheelhouse):

Maytag (Whirlpool): Stamped "ABS" on the inside.
Bosch "Industrial Style" (similar to OP's): PBT
Whirlpool: PET
Verona: ABS
GE Base Line: ABS

PBT has a pretty similar melting point to ABS at ~235° C. With ABS it's complicated, but I print ABS at 260° C for what it's worth. PET is also typically given around 260-270. So these are all pretty similar to each other.

TL;DR: You should be fine with ABS.

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I think you replied to the wrong person. They know.

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I simply pulled the knob off in the store & shoved the rest of the stove up my butt, later at home I printed the missing knob. It's a simple life-hack, basically everyone is doing it.

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Is it much different from 7 months ago?

https://youtu.be/J--QVhGheP4
https://youtu.be/p8Pk1ayx6LQ

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Followed by getting out the calipers and opening OpenSCAD

Possibly linux

Not a meme

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I hate that as a society it is somehow ok to steal for your convenience. Its the same thing with lots of other things as well. Don't you just love it when you buy a product only to get home and find half of it was stolen?

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That's fraud

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Yes. The 1.0 release was in November. That Ondsel fork in your video was based on, I believe, the 0.22 version.

The 1.0 release actually prompted Ondsel to shut down entirely, as they are now largely redundant and attempting to monetize a FOSS program was probably doomed from the start anyway...

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Yeah? You should see the kind of crap my vendors are always trying to do to me. If anything the owe me big time anyhow.

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But now it's the only one that doesn't look nicely polished, unlike the other knobs.

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A while back I would use those local secondhand auctions that mostly dealt in amazon returns. (As opposed to directly buying from amazon.)

I'm surprised how everything would be intact for a lot of items, but most commonly if I got bamboozled, it was something like, everything is fine except for missing a set of screws, or a single crucial knob or something.

People literally will just order the same thing again, pull the part they missed, and instantly return it. Especially when it's no longer a secret these returns just get destroyed or incinerated for no reason.

It's just disgusting consumer-brain behavior. (Amazon, of course, being sheer evil, enjoys the market advantage of a "no questions" return policy.)

If it was a very specialty piece beyond a simple hardware store run, a lot of times I've been lucky enough to contact the manufacturer of a thing and they'd just send me the missing bit. Free. Super simple. The most I had to do was take a picture of the model tag.

The fact that this was too much for people to bother with grosses me out.

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Much more realistic that we'd intentionally spend $40 on a specialty roll of filament to have the right color and finish for that one specific print. See, I'm totally saving money! Right after I print, like, nine more of these!

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Pro tip as a 3D printer owner/user though:

Oftentimes for small elements like this you can just contact the company and they'll send you a knob or whatever.
(Probably won't be that lucky on repair parts though)

But I also enjoy the pride of seeing things I've repaired and longevitized with my own equipment.