Microblog Memes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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'm so glad I learned THEFT

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

Knob from your crush? Priceless.

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.

Or do the lazy thing, and just keep borrowing other knobs.