5.25 inch bay to 3.5 inch adapter

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Needed a solid and easy to print 5.25 bay to 3.5 drive adapter, and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for anywhere on thingiverse, so made this one. For mounting the adapter to the bay, add 4x M3 threaded inserts. This relies on threaded inserts and longer mounting screws than what are normally used. This is designed around inserts that have a 5 mm outer diameter. Either press the threaded inserts from the inner side of the adapter, or heat the inserts and gently press them in. The mounting holes are just small enough that you don't exactly need the inserts if you truly don't want to use them, but I do really recommend it. Printing this in either 0.1 or 0.2 works well. Haven't tried 0.3, but this can print with 0.2 and any regular ol' standard FDM printer in about 4 hours. Newer, faster printers can do it in 1.5-2 hours.