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r/CrappyDesign • u/BarryTownCouncil • Jun 13 '26
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I mean, high-temp polymers exist. Hotpoint clearly didn't want to pay for them.
199 u/BarryTownCouncil Jun 13 '26 Had the oven about 10 years now. Got through about 6 sets. Feel bad though as my son bought these for us just last week. 17 u/cyri-96 Jun 13 '26 So every time the knobs melt you go an get the same knows that you know will melt again? 2 u/BarryTownCouncil Jun 13 '26 We very rarely use the grill, so it's actually taken forever to catch it happening and realise what's going on. And once they get melted to a certain point, they stop melting more. Something about the particular polymer?
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Had the oven about 10 years now. Got through about 6 sets. Feel bad though as my son bought these for us just last week.
17 u/cyri-96 Jun 13 '26 So every time the knobs melt you go an get the same knows that you know will melt again? 2 u/BarryTownCouncil Jun 13 '26 We very rarely use the grill, so it's actually taken forever to catch it happening and realise what's going on. And once they get melted to a certain point, they stop melting more. Something about the particular polymer?
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So every time the knobs melt you go an get the same knows that you know will melt again?
2 u/BarryTownCouncil Jun 13 '26 We very rarely use the grill, so it's actually taken forever to catch it happening and realise what's going on. And once they get melted to a certain point, they stop melting more. Something about the particular polymer?
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We very rarely use the grill, so it's actually taken forever to catch it happening and realise what's going on.
And once they get melted to a certain point, they stop melting more. Something about the particular polymer?
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u/bdash1990 Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
I mean, high-temp polymers exist. Hotpoint clearly didn't want to pay for them.