Steel Tip Darts - Pocket and Flight protector

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Howzit, this is a nifty gadget for a set of steel tip darts with a slide in gap for holding your standard sized flights. The perfect way to describe it is "small, yet brilliant innovation for the pub-dwelling enthusiast". I'm absolutely crazy about playing darts and when I inherited them from my dad most of the original soft pouches had been lost or gone bad. So over the last few years I've been crafting tip protectors out of balsa and cork but they only seem to last a few months and then get tossed in the recycling bin. Not to mention flights getting all ragged and crushed. (Queue flashes of light and dry ice smoke) And THEN, ladies and gentleman, my buddy and I got our hands on a 3D printer for our new start-up and now both of us are exploring all the little things we wanted to have but could never find. I've checked the .stl in Cura and it should print in about 60mins. I don't use standard sized flights most of the time, but I did design the gap in the front to still hold the slim style flights as well. The holes for the dart tips are 28mm deep way longer than standard steel tips and are designed at 2.4mm dia, so darts won't just slip out but on newer sets some custom fitting should probably have to be done. UPDATE: I did a test print with ABS and yes, my settings aren't perfect, but I would love to get any feedback from the community on how to improve the print quality. I've increased the hole diameter to 2.4mm, 2.2mm was just too small and I had to use a lighter to heat up the darts to make them fit. I've also increased the sliding space for the flights as that was just too tight for more than two.