cradle for icom IC-A4 (battery charger)

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Recently a my friend broke the plug to recharge his radio and asked me to fix the problem. After verifying the irreparable nature of the radio I decided to buy a cradle on the internet but I do not find any. So I designed and printed this thing. The cradle is formed by two parts: the body and bottom cap. The body is composed in turn of two parts glued together because my 3D printer (and I think also that of many others) can not print large parts suspended in space. I recovered the two contacts from underwire stiffening of the wipers, I then cut and curved so as to give them the correct form. One tip I can give is to glue the two pieces with chemical glue before and after with hot glue.