• mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Software is free if you aren’t using it for commercial use. Fusion 360, onshape, etc. are all free for personal use. And that’s assuming someone didn’t make it already and share it free.

      Filament costs $17 for 1kg of perfectly fine plastic. You’d probably use 100g at most for this, so $1.70.

      A Bambu A1 mini is $200, and is a modern, high quality printer that would be fine for this project.

      So you only need like a half dozen of these projects to come out ahead.

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        3 months ago

        To be clear, I’m the last one to say one shouldn’t invest in money saving innovation. But the breaking even should be number one priority. I, for instance have all kinds of energy savers in my house that have cost me several hundreds. They’ll only be returned in a few years and I need to manage them properly.

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    3 months ago

    Wouldn’t that be susceptible to melting due to oven temps? Or is that probably made from a higher temp filament?

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      3 months ago

      Depends on the type of filament used and temperatures that are actually present at the knob. I would say no since the temperature required to melt (or warp) the knob would have to be high enough to cause some pretty severe burns if you touched it with your hand. if the knobs on the oven/range are getting that hot, there is a lot more to worry about here than the knob melting.