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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.
Once you have the printer and the knowhow, it takes like 5 minutes to draw and 20 minutes to print at a cost of like 0.10 €
It takes longer to go to a location and buy it at a much higher cost. So why should you?
Its also something you built with your hands and brain. There are few things which feel as good.
Look dude, fuck those ants.
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.
The day big corporations stop stealing from the workers is the day I care about stealing from them. That day will not come.
Let's not forget the rampant wage theft across the entirety of the US, much less the ongoing grift they're pulling on its citizens re: "shoplifting", etc. being the big scary Evil — when wage theft stats completely destroy the charts in comparison to all other commercial/consumer theft, including misappropriation by employees! 😡
TL;DR: Stealing from big corps isn't theft. It's a civic duty, at this point.
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.
Man, i mean while we're fessing up to these things...
If you bought a PC gamer magazine from Barnes and noble back in like 2004 and the demo disc was missing, I'm so sorry.
Oh, are we confessing to ~~minor~~ thefts? 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'm telling the missus that you think her kisses are only minor theft worthy!
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.
Both are appropriate responses to the bullshit that is oven knobs.
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.
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
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
It’s like that with sooooo much stuff these days! Quality assurance became a thing of the past as of the late first decade in 2000. They just don’t care. Make shit to die in a week or a month but again. Rinse repeat. If you have the skills to make parts with a 3D printer that’s an awesome solution.
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.
My 0$ knob
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.
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
That's actually hilarious, i never thought about that when i see missing parts in stores.
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.
LG wants me to pay $45 for a single official replacement.
Amazon has a whole set for $14.
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!
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.
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.
I quite like electroplating with titanium. Can vary the voltage for some great colors too.
if everyone is confessing: Back in my first year in Uni, I and buddy stole a cpu and monitor from storage, not from computer lab, just from storage which was scheduled to get replaced. It was a HP business desktop set from 2009. Fairly spec'd
Buddy wanted a second monitor and I wanted to host some fun sfw websites on lan. Some years later, it now works as my home server with some cheap upgrades.
Oh I also nicked stuff from e-waste dumps: psu's, routers, switchs, electronic trinkets from the labs(I asked lab attendants and they said they don't care)
My uni didn't allow us to use the labs in our free time, and I learned a lot!
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!