Generic Windicator Transmitter Mount

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I liked the Windicator by Chewbaccah (#887932), but it wouldn't fit on my DX9, so I designed one myself. It's made from a cut-down driveway marker like you'd find at Lowe's - those ones are roughly 7.75mm in diameter (https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-48-in-x-0-375-in-Staff-Sign/3025196). There are two designs: one for 3mm screws (pre-threaded) and a second one that takes threaded inserts for 3mm screws. I printed them up in PLA with 30% infill. This design has a flat back to attach to the transmitter with 3M double-sided tape. So first, printing the inner hole was too tight, so I increased its diameter to 8.2mm. I made one more tweak: I designed a second set where I widened the base out so that it would have more area to attach to the transmitter. 4/23/18 - I added a clip to keep the streamer wrapped around the shaft when storing the streamer. This was based on the clip for the Universal Parametric Spool Holder by Rowokii (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:767317). 5/9/18 - I got tired of carrying the Windicator along with my DLG the half mile walk from the car to where I fly, so I designed a transmitter case clip so I can clip the wand to my transmitter case. The idea is to print two, stick them on the outside of the case and clip the wand in. 5/10/18 - After printing some of the case clips, I decided to make the part that would attach to the case bigger so it could be more firmly attached to the case. 5/10/18 - I wasn't happy with how the V2 case clip printed, so now I have a V3. V2 would probably print okay on its side, but supports would be necessary and would leave a rough surface on the side of the clip. 5/11/18 - So V3 didn't have enough surface area to keep the clip from getting pulled off the transmitter case. Enter V4: I solved the sticking to the case problem, but then noticed that the clips need to be a hair tighter to keep the rod from sliding out, so now I have a V5 that has an inner diameter .1mm tighter to hold on to the rod better. I've deleted all the earlier versions as they wouldn't work anyway and just have V5 up - it comes as two pieces: a left and right one, so you'd need to print one of each.