.grip Mod - m6 bolt adaptation and weight chamber

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This is my first attempt to adjust a model, so I hope this works well for anyone who gives it a shot. I printed the .grip as one of my first projects with my printer to force myself to finally paint up all the Bones I got from kickstarter. My first impression was that the whole thing seemed like it would be top-heavy. My second was that the 3d printed threading from the Handle to the Cap Mount didn't work all that well for me. I'll admit that this is probably due to my own printing but the bolt section got ruined almost immediately and wouldn't thread correctly. I took the files into Meshmixer and made a few adjustments: ### Weight Chamber This is a simple chamber in the handle for weight similar to other remixes of this design. If I had sand on hand I would have used that, but as it turns out the chamber fits 7 nickles almost perfectly so I went with that. The cap is a simple flat cap to glue in place once the weight has been added. ### M6 bolt adaptation I removed the printed threading from the Cap Mount and the Handle and replaced it instead with holes to set a cut down M6 bolt and nut in place. From a wear and tear perspective I think that this will last a lot longer (at least in my hands) than the 3d printed threading. **Note:** The files on the upload have been adjusted from the pictures to have a deeper bolt hole in the handle. I didn't account for this correctly in the first design and ended up having to print a taller Ring to get the Cap Mount to tighten down. The deeper hole on the uploaded version should provide some extra wiggle room in cutting down the bolt. I've got this version in the queue to print and will update with pictures once it's complete.