Kink / Bend Protection for Ryobi ROS 300

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Just a little kink protection for my Ryobi ROS 300 eccentric sander. I had to replace it due to the not very good original part that gave up after just a few times of using the sander. I dont know why it broke, maybe fiberglas dust or heat or whatever made it porous. At first I tried to make it very close to the original but the long version broke after some bending tests. Fortunately it broke through a layer so i could use the shorter rest. The short one seems to give enough protection against kink so i remodeled it in Fusion. You can download both the long and the short part. For this print i used TPU with a shore hardness of 95A which gives good stability while being flexible enough for a kink protection. Maybe 85A works better for the long one because of the higher flexibility. Maybe this kink Protection works for other tools as well.