Cover cap for drillholes, customizable

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Cover up pre-drilled holes with this useful tool. Updated August 29, 2018. Use it in your kitchen cabinet to cover peg-holes and keep them clean and more water-resistant (you don't want water in particle-board). Or use it for any other hole you want to cover. It's also usable for cosmetic endcaps for pipes and tubes. It's a tight fit but still removable if desired. The cap is almost fully customizable in the Thingiverse customizer or OpenScad. For convenience, there are four STLs available for 5 mm (Ikea), 6 mm (other brands), and 8 mm (most popular dowel) diameters. Slicing: - Slice it with concentric infill for the best and smoothest result for smaller diameters (less than 12 mm). Printing: - It's a small part, so good bed-adhesion is necessary. - Tested from 5 mm up, all gave a good result. - No support needed. - PLA works fine. Happy covering! *Larger plug-diameters (over 25 mm) are also working (tested at 40 mm). So you can use it for cosmetic end-caps for pipes, for example. Don't make the length of the plug too short for larger diameters or it will snap off. To be safe, and if possible, use a plug-length of at least 15 mm for diameters larger than 20 mm. Update August 28, 2018: cleaned up the scad-file a bit, same functionality. Update August 29, 2018: Plug got loose from the cap with higher diameters (over 30 mm), problem solved. Functionality still the same, also working for larger diameters now. More information about the fantastic and challenging program OpenScad can be found here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual