Garmin GPS Mount

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After getting into a car accident over the summer I had no need for my GPS until I got a new car a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I lost the mount for it that I used to have. A trip to Best Buy later though, and I had a new mount. It was the MagicMount by Scosche, which worked by having you stick a metal plate onto the back of your GPS, and that metal plate stuck to a magnet on the mount. This worked great. . . Until the second time I tried to use it and the magnet pulled the metal plate right off of my GPS. After several futile attempts to get it to stick back onto my GPS I decided to go another route and just make my own. This piece is for a pretty specific problem, but in order to expand the possible range of uses, I'm uploading two versions. The first is designed to simply fit onto a GPS and has a blank back so someone can modify it to attach to whatever they want. The other one is specifically designed to attach the GPS to the clip on a magic mount the magnet would normally fit onto. I have a Garmin nuvi 2597LMT that I used for the dimensions. I don't know whether this kind of mount would work on other units or not, but you're obviously welcome to try. I'm also going to upload a .STP file for it too in order to make it as easy as possible to modify. If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know. Instructions I used my Printrbot simple and used PLA: Layer Height .2mm Shell thickness is 1mm (you might be better off with a thinner shell) And 4% infill in order to keep it flexible. The base version of it didn't need supports, it was a little stringy in the middle, but it functions just fine. When I tried printing earlier version of the MagicMount model I had a bunch of warping on the top part where it hooks onto the MagicMount since it had nothing to bridge to. In order to fix this I manually put small pegs in at the corners in order to provide something for the printer to bridge to. They're very easy to pull out, and because of them you shouldn't need to have the printer build in supports.