Product review (4 stars): Way too much money for what should have been original equipment
It's a knob. It shouldn't cost twenty bucks. This is what the original should have been. Shame on GE for not recalling the products or sending these out as replacements for the cheap flimsy knobs they install as original equipment. Really, I thought I had a broken timer motor. I'm sure repairmen get called out all the time to replace the original knobs. Then the customer breathes a sign of relief because it was "only a knob." Well, it shouldn't have broken in the first place. This knob has a metal reinforcement around the plastic hub; the original doesn't and so the original cracks and won't turn the timer shaft. This replacement looks like it will last. It looks like someone recognized the problem and designed this to solve it. It looks like they figured they could charge twenty bucks for a lasting fix. Outrageous! That stinks almost as mush as putting the cheap ones on as original equipment. A reasonable price would have gotten it five stars.