Magnifying glass holder with socket

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This magnifying glass holder uses a socket which is meant to work with this locking ball and socket system: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:824711 It's for use with a 7.5 cm magnifying glass purchased from a dollar store. The lens was easily extracted from that magnifying glass by using a hacksaw to cut the rim at one location. WARNING: The 7.5 cm lens is a little on the heavy side for the ball and socket system. Any heavier and it would probably just droop down. That's one reason I came up with the longer ball and socket joint https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2770809. Look closely at my photograph of it in use and you'll see two of these longer joints in use. Fewer joints means fewer places it could droop. The basic design idea for the ring that holds the lens comes from here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:801279 I made the ring from scratch though, to make it easier to edit the mesh in Blender (I used fewer polygons).