Smaller Tube Squeezer

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Based on Tube Squeezer by Starno http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1009, the scale has been adjusted to 0.9 at X and Z, while 0.7 is applied to Y for a tighter fit in our household's toothpaste tubes. The tube fits very snugly due to printing it with a 0.3 mm layer size in PLA. I was unable to thin down the slot without altering its overall geometry in this modified version, sacrificing some of the appeal that made the original model so attractive just to get as much toothpaste as possible out of the tube. Instructions The Tube Squeezer was printed with great success using PLA at 0.3 mm layer thickness. For added safety, a honeycomb pattern with 60% fill was used - possibly an overcautious approach.