Need "grip" on new cooker controls

[Clive Long,UK]

Hi,

I bought a new (very simple) oven in a sale. Looks all smart and gleaming but the highly polished steel-effect controls are wondrous slippy, and with a touch of grease on the fingers, can't be turned

A smart suggestion from a friend, elastic rubber bands around the control, has solved the problem from a functional point of view - but looks real naff on the gleaming oven.

Any ideas what I could buy, maybe some kind of black neopene rubber strip ??, that I could stick on the control to give me grip I am currently getting off the rubber bands?

Maybe there is some kind of "disability" Web site that sells this kind of thing for people with impaired grip?

Thanks

Clive

[James Salisbury]

Try

and put TAPE SELF AMALG into the search

[Mary Fisher]

There's too much of this kind of design. Probably the worst things re 'Supataps' and their ilk which, when wet, at very difficult to turn. There are some slightly knurled knobs on portable radios which won't turn easily so you have to use both hands to adjust the volume control - or turn them on and off in some cases.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

But that wouldn't look good either.

Yours isn't the impaired grip though, it's the item which is designed for form, not function.

Mary

[Rob Morley]

Old bicyle inner tube of the right size that you can cut some nice neat bands that will stretch over the knobs?

[Andrew Mawson]

Contact the manufacturer and question the 'fitness for purpose' of the knobs

AWEM

[Colin Wilson]

Sounds to me like the manufacturer should have a rethink - something like this could be bloody dangerous.

[Clive Long,UK]

James

A definite possible.

Thanks for the lead.

I take full responsibility for buying an oven with "slippery knobs". Bought on price without seeing the item.

By the way its a New World cooker. Apart from "slippery knobs" the oven does its job well.

Clive

[Owain]

"Clive Long,UK" wrote | I take full responsibility for buying an oven with "slippery | knobs". Bought on price without seeing the item.

I suspect that the shaft on the controls is one of a few standard patterns and you could probably put different knobs on without much difficulty.

Owain