Stackable Bottle Holder / Collector

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Please take also a look to my new design: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2618022 This is a stackable bottle holder for one-way returnable bottles, used in Germany, to carry them back to the supermarket. With the displayed 4 levels, you can carry 36 bottles, but there are also more levels possible. I don't know, how this is handled in other countries, but in Germany the one-way bottles have € 0.25 deposit. So you have to collect them, and bring them back to the supermarket. I made already a "bottle butler" out of Aluminium sheet, but I wanted to design a printable one. Here it is. You need a threaded rod M3, about 400-500 mm long, to hold all parts together (with 2 nuts and 2 washers) . In that way there is no pulling force on the printed parts, and so no problem with layer adhesion. For the displayed 4 levels, you have to print 4x main, 3x tube, 1x feet and 1x handle. Instead of printing the tube, you can also buy a tube out of plastic (HT-Rohr DN40). I have designed this in openSCAD with a lot of parameters, so adapt to other kind of bottles shouldn't be a problem. Maybe I will publish the file, if needed. After 2 updates, I guess the thing is ready for you to print. On my picture you can see multiple generations mixed. Also with easy things one can learn a lot. If you print one, please post a make, and tell me, if it works for you.