Paint Stir Stick Adapter for Drill

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Was figuring out a way to use all them paint stir sticks every time I go to the paint store. Made this simple holder to attach to a drill. Its in 2 pieces because I didn't want to waste filament just to add support. I printed the adapter with infill of 10% while the square peg was 100% to give it strength. Even though the square peg and square hole are the same size, when printed the peg came out too big to fit the hole (no, I didn't try to put a square peg into a round hole, lol). This way if the peg is too small or too large you can always resize. The adapter fit the stir stick perfectly, nice fit. The paint stir sticks were from Sherwin Williams. I assume the ones from HD, Lowes, etc are all the same size? I understand that using paint sticks are not really environmentally sound compared to using a stirrer that can be rinsed off and reused again. But since I don't paint often and this is a faster clean up, I've occasionally just use a stir stick instead. (Although I've been painting a lot this holiday week - hopefully someone will find both this and my quart cup holder https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4704827 useful for their next home improvement project.)