Generic Windicator Transmitter Mount

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I liked the windicator by chewbaccah (#887932), but it wouldn't fit on my dx9, so I have designed up my own. It is designed to use a cut down driveway marker like you would find at lowes- the ones at lowes are rougly 7.75mm in diameter (https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-48-in-x-0-375-in-Staff-Sign/3025196). There are 2 designs- one for 3mm screws (pre threaded) and a second one that takes threaded inserts for 3mm screws. I printed them up in pla with 30% infill. This is designed with a flat back to attach to the transmitter with 3m double sided tape. so first printing the inner hole was too tight, I have increased its diameter to 8.2mm. made one more tweak- made a second set where I widened the base out so that it would have more area to attach to the transmitter. 4/23/18- added a clip to keep the streamer wrapped around the shaft when storing the streamer.- this was based upon the clip for the universal parametric spool holder by rowokii (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:767317) 5/9/18- Got tired of carrying the windicator along with my dlg the half mile walk from the car to where I fly, so designed a transmitter case clip so I can clip the wand to my transmitter case. Idea is to print 2, stick them on the outside of the case and clip the wand in 5/10/18- after printing some of the case clips, I decided to make the part that would attach to the case bigger so that it could be more firmly attached to the case. 5/10/18- wasn't happy with how the v2 case clip printed, so now have a v3- V2 would probably print ok on its side, but supports would be necessary, and would leave a rough surface on the side of the clip. 5/11/18- so v3 didn't have enough surface area to keep the clip from getting pulled off the transmitter case.. enter v4- Solved the sticking to the case problem, but then noticed that the clips need to be a hair tighter to keep the rod from sliding out, so now have a V5 that has an inner diamter .1mm tighter to hold on to the rod better- I have whacked all the earlier versions as they wouldn't work out any way and just have v5 up- it comes as 2 pieces a left and right one- so you would need to print one of each.