Broken Stove Knob Collar Fix

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I am not uploading this for you to necessarily download, but to show you a better alternative to fix a cracked or broken stove knob as opposed to printing an entire new stove knob that does not match. My Jenn-Air stove had several stove knobs with cracked and crumbling female D-Shafts. Paying for replacements was very expensive compared to my solution. I printed these collars to match the 10mm outside diameter of the stove knob female shafts. The fix is to slip the collars over the cracked and split shafts to force the split in the female shaft back together. One of my stove knobs had been split to a point where a piece had fallen off of it. But after I assembled the broken piece back onto the shaft and pushed the 3D printed PLA collar over the pieces, the shaft now works like it is brand-new. And this is more than 1-1/2 years after I originally created this as my first fix with my Anet A8. No wobble whatsoever. This collar slips over a stove knob with a 10mm O.D. female shaft. Measure the O.D. of your stove knob shaft to make scaling adjustments for other shaft sizes. Or, make your own stove collars. A hole through a cylinder is a perfect 1st 3D design exercise to create your own collars. Putting these collars on your existing stove knobs is a good preventive measure to keep them from breaking in the future. **-VegasGuy**