FLSun QQ tool holder

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This is a tool holder I designed for the FLSun's QQ series of printers. It holds all the tools I've been using over the past few years, plus the ones that came with my QQ-S. The large part takes about 13 hours to print, and the small one finishes in under 3. My previous printer used three different sizes of M screws and nuts, and I found standard L-shaped Allen wrenches annoying, so I bought a set of proper nut drivers. They come in sets of four, so I decided to make space for all of them. The QQ-S seems to use only the largest one, but that's okay. I'm not sure what the tiny screwdriver is used for, but I made room for it anyway. I use the glue stick solely as a size comparison when photographing parts I upload, so I wanted a place to keep it handy. Because I don't print things that require supports, I designed the holder to be printed as two separate parts that get glued together. An option is to print the whole thing on its edge, but this would have made the holes and other details not come out so well. If someone wants to try that to avoid gluing, I can easily provide an STL for it. Here's a link to the material used to glue the two parts together: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096T6OQK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This liquid dissolves PLA, so it really welds the two parts together. It's a highly volatile substance that comes with an applicator bottle. I actually use a hypodermic syringe, but the bottle will work just as well. What you do is put the two pieces together and then squirt a tiny amount of the solvent along the seams between the two pieces. Capillary action will draw it in between the two adjoining surfaces and weld them together. It does this in about 30 seconds, so you have a small amount of time to get things properly aligned before the PLA becomes solid. The solvent is really nasty stuff; it evaporates very fast and will dry out your skin if any gets on you. Use it only in a place with good ventilation. To attach the holder to the printer, I used a little bit of hot glue. It turns out that a cheap hot glue gun (around $7.00) is very handy to have. I used two thin beads of hot glue on the printer, and then just stuck the holder onto it. You could use some nuts & bolts, but that would require drilling holes. Double stick tape would be a reasonable alternative to hot glue. Here's a link for the nut drivers: https://www.amazon.com/NEEWER%C2%AE-Titanium-Nitride-Driver-Wrench/dp/B00CP2GGBI/ref=sr_1_49?keywords=M+nut+driver&qid=1577029216&s=industrial&sr=1-49