Christmas Light Support - Model Railroad

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I designed this part to add interior lighting to a model Railroad passenger station. It provides bracing and support for low-cost Christmas lights. I need a bunch of them. So, this simple tooling is helpful. The commonly-available strings of lights use ~3.5 volts each. I certainly did not want to just plug the string in to house-hold power because that is dangerous in a hobby setting. The power supplies are readily available on line. If you decide to mount the sockets, you will need to enlarge the center hole a little. In my case, I also printed roof trusses out of the same PLA material. These parts were glued to them using PVC glue of the sort used for plumbing. The STL file includes multiple copies of the part. I needed a lot of them. Feel free to adjust to your needs.