Category: Daily Living
A frustrating thing has occurred. I had locator dots put on the temperature dial on my oven when I first moved in here. I have one dot at the 12:00 position, then I just lined up the dots on the dial with that one to set the temperature. Unfortunately, when I started baking, over time, I noticed the adhesive keeping the dots attached to the temperature dial would wear away to the point when the dots would fall off, rendering my oven useless. I can't use high marks glue on the oven as that stuff, (from what I was told), is permanent. Does anyone have a reliable way of marking temperature set dials on their oven if their oven still has knobs these days, and are there locator dots whose adhesive won't react so quickly to the heat? The square-shaped locator dots won't fit on this knob easily. Thanks.
The only thing I've been able to do is just replace the dots every now and then.
Little blobs from a hot glue gun shouldn't be permanent. Had them on the oven at my old place and they were easy to clean off when I moved out. Or maybe, little tiny pieces of braille label tape.
You might try stopping in to your local hobby shop. See if they have any stickers
that you could use. Quality stickers should stay on pretty well. You can put the
sticker down and trace around it with clear nail polish. It'll be a little rough, but
it should help keep the sticker in place. If you get little triangle stickers, you
could even have them point where you need the dial to be. That's about the
only idea I have.
You can buy replacement nobs, or the one you need that has a pointer on it.
You take the nob you wish to replace to your home store or hardwear store and tell them what you are trying to do.
Now you have a pointer on the nob.
You can do one of two things.
Remember the place the pointer is at, say at 350, or use gimo braille labeling tape and stick your dots directly on the stove instead of the nob.
The glue sticks best on the metal surface, so will stay put.
Finger Nail polish, also makes a dot that will stay, but you'll need help doing that.
You can bvuy stick on things also at your home store too, but again, you want them on the stove, not the nob.
All of my appliances have dials, as I refuse to use anything else. For my microwave, the process was easy. I simply put the dots on the numbers on the microwave itself, so that I can point the dial to the dot. This works because the dial is flat, though I have seen microwave with round ones, where this could be a problem. My stove also has flat dials, but the numbers are on the dials themselves, not on the stove. I need a way to be able to mark them correctly, because the method for the microwave won't work. This is my stove, so I can use High Marks glue. Thanks for the suggestion and also the warning about them falling off when baking!
As for the original post, maybe you can put tape ontop of the dots so that they stay in place. A strong kind can be difficult to remove, but it can still be done.
I've definitely had the same experience with dots. I have little pieces of Braille labeling tape on my oven (on the actual oven and not the knob, as others have said). They've been there for four years, and not one has come off.
Becky