Solar Post Topper

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I needed to replace a light post that our homeowner's association removed. There are three families' homes that lie in darkness each evening. This is my sloppy attempt to make things a little brighter in our corner of the community we live in. Not the most accurate print, you can see the red was the first draft, then I realized it was much too small. I just eyeballed the resizing in cura and sunk the top below the print bed so it would only print the larger segment below. These are the lights it is meant to mount on to. Ok. Here is where it gets imaginative. If it works, it isn't stupid. I took blue painter's tape and affixed it to one of the large flat panels of the mount I had printed, lining out the sides of the tape with sharpie, where it ended on the mount. I took that tape and aligned it over the screw holes, poking through the tape where the screws went. Then realigned the tape on the flat panel and poked with a sharpie where the screws went. Then I used small self tapping wood screws to go in the marks that had been transferred to the panels on the mount. The lights mounted perfectly and were aligned exactly where they needed to be. Now let's see if my project drawings get approved by the freakin' Homeowner's Association that took the lights away in the first place. I will attach this topper to a pvc pipe that acts as a sleeve over a T Post that will be driven into the ground, again, I hope it gets approved. These are the lights that have been used. https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B07NQ4L1SB/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=all&qid=1562598386&sr=8-4