Belt Holster for Flashlight

Belt Holster for Flashlight

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I bought a ThorFire PF01 on Amazon and the pocket clip kept catching on things and yanking it out of my pocket. I decided to fix this issue by designing a belt holster. It's a little unconventional, but it works well and I use it frequently. I printed this in Inland black PETG - I love solid-color PET filaments. Then I sanded it down just a bit to remove the most obvious ridges. If you want, you can sand it more aggressively to make it as smooth as an injection-molded part; I usually take it down until it's smooth to the touch. I've included the .f3d archive so you can adjust it to your liking; I made it a bit shorter so I can push the flashlight out from the bottom when I want to. Print Settings: Printer: Custom Built CoreXY Rafts: No Supports: No Resolution: 0.2mm Infill: 50% Notes: I printed it standing up in black PETG on BuildTak. Bed temperature was 40C, nozzle temperature was 250C, and the print speed was 125mm/s. As you can see, I probably should have slowed it down a bit more, as there's maybe 0.1mm in z banding that sanding exposed. It might be filament variation, though, so that's difficult to determine. Post-Printing: I went to the hardware store and bought one of the big sanding sponges. A medium grit one was perfect for this job. Then I picked up a 220 grit drywall sanding screen, and another 320 grit sponge. A few minutes with these in order leaves me with a smooth-to-the-touch finish. If I were more ambitious, at this point I could coat it with XTC and make it shiny smooth, or I could work through more sanding grits down to 1000 grit, but smooth-to-the-touch was my goal, not "factory finish".

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