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Two of our control buttons broke, so I drilled out the panel and stuck chopping sticks into the holes to hold us over for the week it would take to get the replacement.
I woulld order a 3d printer, learn how to print, learn CAD, print a new part that doesn't fit and then order a new part.
Chances are that someone already published the part ready to print, you just need the printer and filament ;)
Sounds about right to me.
Except I never have the sense to give up after one failure.
In my experience, you're missing two steps. "Forget again how to print" because at some point, you're running out of models that are already available. Then the printer collects dust for two years, leading to "re-learn how to print and calibrate". I now own my third printer and never got around to teaching myself CAD. Must be happening soon though, I'm convinced.
That is way to accurate to be funny. I bought a printer a few years ago, printed a couple of things, worked pretty well after fiddeling for a few days. I was finally ready to print the thing i actually wanted to. Problem with the z-axis. Ah that's a problem for another day. Two years later i looked at that printer going: what even is anything?
I'm not horrible with CAD, but I always forget how to print. Well, not so much "forget" as "can't be bothered to sort out the software".
I have a MakerBot Replicator Mini which I bought second-hand. It only works with an old version of MakerBot's proprietary software, which is only available for Windows. I've since switched to Linux on all of my machines, so I'd have to do a lot of fiddling to get it to work.
Maybe the software works on Wine, I haven't tried yet. I don't really want to run a Windows VM just for this, but it's much more likely to work. Getting the STLs into the MakerBot software would be pretty annoying.
If I was more enthusiastic about it, I might want to replace the brains of the printer with something more universally supported, so it just works on standard 3D printing software. But it's so low in my priorities list that I don't think I'll ever do that.
Maybe I should just look for a makers space where there are public 3D printers that you just pay per print. But I don't know if there are such places in my country at all, let alone my city.
Linux and cad or slicer software don't get along, i found out. I mean i didn't try suuuper hard, but definitely not out of the box. With a grudge i reinstalled windows on my laptop to use it just for cad and printing. A horrible experience to beginn with, but everhthing worked. The next day, the laptop suddenly had no internet connection. It could find every wifi network, except my own. I reinstalled everything and it worked. Used my wifi to print, nice. Next day, same thing. No internet, my wifi was gone. I'm no computer wizard, but usually i'm pretty good at dinding solutions online and fix problems. This one is so ultra specific that when you look for something like: can't find wifi or whatever, everything else comes up. I had wifi, it worked... Twice. Anyway, i fucking hate windows
I got myself a printer with a 370°C hot end so I can print all of the filaments, including stuff that gets used in areas like an engine bay or needs to be very robust mechanically. If I'm not gonna learn some basic CAD, I might as well sell it and not think about 3D printing.
If you're not already used to any CAD software, I really recommend FreeCAD. It used to be pretty horrible, but the recent releases (1.1 especially) make it genuinely excellent IMO, quite a lot more user-friendly, and fun to use. It's still got a learning curve to it like literally any professional/creative software, especially those as complex as CAD, but there's a strong community with plenty of tutorials and resources that you can learn from.
I have heard that it's much harder to learn if you're already used to other CAD software, with one Lemmy user telling me it's far worse than switching between any other two CAD solutions. But since you don't have that baggage, I think you can do alright.
FreeCAD is not user friendly. Even with tutorials it never seems to behave the same way twice.
FreeCAD is what I made an attempt at last year when 1.0 was released. There is a bunch of great tutorial videos and files out there, so there's definitely no lack of resources. It's more a "I need to be willing to dedicate time to learning it on a regular basis" problem. I learned some basics, printed one or two of my creations and then stopped for some reason. Now I gotta start at zero once again.
Reminds me of the nail on a string I was using for a while when the blinker switch on my motorcycle had fallen off.
Be careful...that looks like a load bearing knob! /s
That's a content I subed for!
I had my shower knob fail so I had a vice clamp for a shower handle for a while.
I just 3d printed a new knob and glued it on with epoxy. Fucker ain't never coming off now.
I hope you yelled at it a few times too. "Come on! Fucking come off now! Do it! DO IT!"
If that knob needs to come off, I am cutting it off.
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.
I once replaced a volume knob on my guitar with a dryer knob. Thing was huge.
Was it labeled appropriately?
It went upto extra dry.
Quick fix is not the most ethical or honest, but it's to go look for a store that sells your brand of washer. They don't change the knobs that often so you might be able to swap the broken for a non broken. But like, I don't personally feel good using that method.
There's a decent chance that store sells the knobs tho
Man, that dryer is screwed.
Shear off two sides of that screw head, put on a vice-grip, and you have the washer I grew up with.
We must have similar models and problems. I was able to print out a replacement part luckily.
It bothers me that stuff like this (appliance parts in particular) isn't really standardized.
I don't want to have to redesign a replacement part for every unique knob in existence.
Give me standard knob.stl and let me print it dammit
The point is to encourage you to buy a new dryer.
It's probably not a standard, but I'm pretty sure the size of the flattened metal rod this knob goes on is very common in large household appliances (oven, washing machine etc).
Yeah it's a really unnecessary problem to have. It took me three print iterations to get the fit good enough.
Please share it to the 3d print community! If you had to solve the problem guaranteed someone else needs it too.
Thank you for your service.
I would like to second this. I don't have a 3d printer, but my library does. I can do all the research in the world beforehand but nothing helps more than a file someone else has used successfully.
I'd be happy to but I'm not registered in any repository. Is there a way to upload the STL here?
STL file sharing sites are free to join. Just avoid thingiverse.
Uh, yyyyyeeessssssss
I'm sure. If not I can try setting up some kind of filehoster in the morning. I'm tried. How large are the files? I did this once and I don't remember.
I'm going through https://fedidb.com/software looking for a file host right now
https://manyfold.app/ might be your best bet? It says it's for organizing 3d print stuff
It's no bigger than a couple of megs I guess.
I have an old VGA box. It switches between monitors. You connect your pc vga out to the box vga in. Then the box has VGA out A and VGA out B.
You turn the knob to send your display either to monitor A or B. Well, the knob broke in 2005.
On the floor was an old key that had no use. The key has holes at the top as a design choice. These holes are in the shape of a triangle.
I noticed the holes fit perfectly onto the metal rod that turned the broken knob. So I took the knob off, put the key over the rod, and now I don't need to use a wrench to turn the knob. The key is the new knob.
Well....not new. That key has held there since 2005.
finally! something on my level of skill.