Brilliant! Thank you. I just fixed my hob knob your way and it's saved me a small fortune. £33 for a new knob v £10 for the putty stuff. No brainer. Plus - there's another knob there on the front of my oven bound to fail at some point in the future. You're a bloody genius. 👍👍
My BBQ is over 30 years old and still going great, but the knobs are now just about useless. I did clean the gas valves for the first time and now they are turning much better, almost like new. So will definitely try your method to fix the knobs. Great idea. Thanks.
Great vid! I did something similar by using fibreglass resin into void (filling shaft holes with melted candle wax ) - less messy. This was after 2nd set of ebay sourced knobs failed.
wow thinking outside of the box, good thinking. The problem is if you don't have that car filler stuff, then it is probably cheaper just to order the knobs, cause I am guessing that stuff is not cheap too. But I love the idea :)
My screws fell out of where they are to screw in behind te top and behind the knob. I only want to take part what I must not the entire back with 10 small bolts if I dont have to. (I tore apart my dryer when I only needed to undo 2 screws under lid🤨)!
@@comeinhandynow thanks that's what I thought. I'm recovering from bloody covid at the mo so that'll be a job for the future , thanks for your swift reply
You have to open up the oven. Pull it out, unscrew the top panel to get to the control panel, then find the oven control which has probably just unscrewed and fallen back. Find the loosened nut and remount it all.
I don’t go along with the “designed to fail” conspiracy. It’s more like designed to a a low enough price so people will buy it. People will not pay for things they can’t see, they just want cheap.
Pull the knob off and take a look at it. You will probably see that the plastic collar has split meaning that the flat edge on it is unable to grip onto the shaft that pokes out from the cooker. You could try strapping the collar together with some cable ties, but that won’t last long due to the heat around an oven. Better to do like I have shown in the video.
@@visualsbymeztisa No harm in trying to fix the old one then. Nothing to loose and it should work and save the expense of a new one. By the way it wasn't your fault that it broke, tell your Dad, as these knobs soften with age and heat and fail at any time.
@@comeinhandynow Thanks. It was just screws that came apart from switch. I took off 1/2 the back, found switch and miraculously lined screws in within a minute. Then put it back together. Walla! I anticipated much worse.
@@kingsandannie Fix it the same by filling with car body filler, without springs, just make sure it fits on the shaft tightly and don’t try and turn it until it has set in 24 hrs.
@@phoebewhybrow7686 Fix the knobs or buy some new knobs. If you can still turn the oven knob shaft around to turn it on, but it still doesn't come on, maybe the oven heater element has gone, in which case see my other video on changing the heater element.
@@comeinhandynow Brilliant solution. Anyone who criticizes without giving reasons is just an idiot and/or troll. Here in the US, I'm looking for a new Samsung knob to replace one that broke and it's almost impossible to find the exact match - and when I did, they want $50 to $100 for 1 piece of plastic crap knob. Truly unbelievable. Should be $5 at the most. I've seen some repair rings that fit around the plastic that would work too, but my plastic piece broke and the part was thrown away. So, something like your solution may work for me and I wouldn't have to wait for shipping, etc.
@@comeinhandynow I was able to find the little metal "D" insert which I thought was thrown away, and I put a small tie-wrap around it to hold it onto the knob. Worked great. If I hadn't found that little metal insert, I was going to try your idea. Mine should hold, but I know yours will last for decades.
@@joeorlando94 Good, for interest, my first fix was to put a cable tie around the shaft. This last for a few weeks but the heat from the oven softened the plastic and the knob then failed again. I then did the fix in the video which has lasted ever since.
Brilliant! Thank you.
I just fixed my hob knob your way and it's saved me a small fortune. £33 for a new knob v £10 for the putty stuff. No brainer.
Plus - there's another knob there on the front of my oven bound to fail at some point in the future.
You're a bloody genius. 👍👍
Thanks!
Brilliant idea - I just followed your instructions for a broken air fryer timer knob. Thank you for making this video.
Thanks, glad to help.
My BBQ is over 30 years old and still going great, but the knobs are now just about useless. I did clean the gas valves for the first time and now they are turning much better, almost like new. So will definitely try your method to fix the knobs. Great idea. Thanks.
Cheers, good luck.
I liked the idea of the cable ties. I fixed a blender button using that idea. Thanks man.
Glad it helped
Great vid! I did something similar by using fibreglass resin into void (filling shaft holes with melted candle wax ) - less messy. This was after 2nd set of ebay sourced knobs failed.
Cheers. We think alike then.
wow thinking outside of the box, good thinking. The problem is if you don't have that car filler stuff, then it is probably cheaper just to order the knobs, cause I am guessing that stuff is not cheap too. But I love the idea :)
Car body filler is very cheap. Got to be a lot cheaper than new knobs that will have the same failure mechanism too.
Very smart way to do that! Thank you for that idea.
Cheers.
Any solution if the plastic spindle has broken off on my oven. The knob appears fine.
Did it snap or just detach from it’s mounting? Dismantling of the oven probably required to fix or replace the part.
My screws fell out of where they are to screw in behind te top and behind the knob. I only want to take part what I must not the entire back with 10 small bolts if I dont have to. (I tore apart my dryer when I only needed to undo 2 screws under lid🤨)!
The spindle has fallen down behind the glass panel. How do I get the panel off? It's a smeg wall oven
I would guess you would have to remove the oven from the cabinet and take it’s panels off and look at how it all goes together and hence comes apart.
@@comeinhandynow thanks that's what I thought. I'm recovering from bloody covid at the mo so that'll be a job for the future , thanks for your swift reply
How to quickly fix the valve stem to the oven control panel.
You have to open up the oven. Pull it out, unscrew the top panel to get to the control panel, then find the oven control which has probably just unscrewed and fallen back. Find the loosened nut and remount it all.
brill, tks the upload!
Thanks, I hope it helped.
Cooker companies could avoid the problem by making the knobs solid, if only everything wasn't so cheaply made and designed to fail these days...
I don’t go along with the “designed to fail” conspiracy. It’s more like designed to a a low enough price so people will buy it. People will not pay for things they can’t see, they just want cheap.
So what if you turned it all the way around plz I need help I broke the nob today because I didnt know what to do and my dads mad.
Pull the knob off and take a look at it. You will probably see that the plastic collar has split meaning that the flat edge on it is unable to grip onto the shaft that pokes out from the cooker. You could try strapping the collar together with some cable ties, but that won’t last long due to the heat around an oven. Better to do like I have shown in the video.
Thx I think my dads just going to get a new one btw thx for replieing so quick
@@visualsbymeztisa No harm in trying to fix the old one then. Nothing to loose and it should work and save the expense of a new one. By the way it wasn't your fault that it broke, tell your Dad, as these knobs soften with age and heat and fail at any time.
comeinhandynow no I’m stupid it didn’t turn and I decided to force it all the way around lol
What about just a proxy glue?
That would work also, probably just a bit more expensive for the volume needed to fill the hole than the filler in the video.
@@comeinhandynow
Thanks. It was just screws that came apart from switch. I took off 1/2 the back, found switch and miraculously lined screws in within a minute. Then put it back together. Walla!
I anticipated much worse.
Thanks what if they have springs? Will it work the same? Mine are split like this but the springs just keep pinging off when I try to put bAck on
@@kingsandannie Fix it the same by filling with car body filler, without springs, just make sure it fits on the shaft tightly and don’t try and turn it until it has set in 24 hrs.
@@comeinhandynow cheers mate
Errrr just broke the oven what do I do it’s not heating up🤷🏼♀️
Also the knob things are not there either
@@phoebewhybrow7686 Fix the knobs or buy some new knobs. If you can still turn the oven knob shaft around to turn it on, but it still doesn't come on, maybe the oven heater element has gone, in which case see my other video on changing the heater element.
@@comeinhandynow okay thank you
Zanussi cooker k on show me got two screws on
My knobs on my oven won't go back on
Line up the flat edges
Ok
My oven control knob has fallen inside panel dont know how to get it out to fix it so now I have no oven
Not the correct solution
Funny comment. It’s a solution that works long term. They haven’t gone again since. Cheap to do as well. Don’t know why you said that.
@@comeinhandynow Brilliant solution. Anyone who criticizes without giving reasons is just an idiot and/or troll. Here in the US, I'm looking for a new Samsung knob to replace one that broke and it's almost impossible to find the exact match - and when I did, they want $50 to $100 for 1 piece of plastic crap knob. Truly unbelievable. Should be $5 at the most. I've seen some repair rings that fit around the plastic that would work too, but my plastic piece broke and the part was thrown away. So, something like your solution may work for me and I wouldn't have to wait for shipping, etc.
@@joeorlando94 thanks for the feedback. My knob is still working well so the fix should work for yours too.
@@comeinhandynow I was able to find the little metal "D" insert which I thought was thrown away, and I put a small tie-wrap around it to hold it onto the knob. Worked great. If I hadn't found that little metal insert, I was going to try your idea. Mine should hold, but I know yours will last for decades.
@@joeorlando94 Good, for interest, my first fix was to put a cable tie around the shaft. This last for a few weeks but the heat from the oven softened the plastic and the knob then failed again. I then did the fix in the video which has lasted ever since.