Vase For Holding 3D Printed Hex Key T-Handles

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These little T-handles for hex keys by Kezat are super handy. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:951909 I printed out each one a different color so I can easily distinguish between the different sizes. I was keeping them all in a 3D printed Heart Vase ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:42570 ), and it worked alright. I had been wanting to try my hand at designing a vase, but I'm not very creative artistically. So I realized I could create a vase specifically for holding these handles by the little square on the retaining nut. The vase is designed around the long hex keys that came with my Creality Ender 3. Intended to be printed in vase mode. Depending on the thickness you print the base, you may want to scale the Z dimension up a few percentage points. I printed at .2mm with 5 bottom layers and the longest hex key just touches the bottom of the vase. Because the little square retaining nuts tighten down on the short end shaft of the hex key, they each stop at a different orientation depending on the size of the hex key. So I remixed the retaining nuts so that the height of the nut is shortened by the size of the minus the size of the smallest key. So that way they all tighten up in the same orientation. So when they fit into their slots in the vase, they are oriented the same direction relative to the center of the vase. In the center of the array of hex keys, there's a 50mm round container for various other tools. On mine, I put some small test cubes that I previous printed in the bottom of the container for a little extra weight and hold other tools in position. Vase model above is printed in Inland natural color PLA. T-handles were printed in Inland PETG or PLA in varying colors. Red PETG 4mm, Green PETG 3mm, Blue PLA 2.5mm, Black PETG 2mm, White PLA 1.5mm - So from biggest to smallest RGB and black and white - that's my little mnemonic for remembering which color is which size.