A simple clip for that little bleed or adjustment key from the heating system that we all seem to misplace 😜
The clip provides a place for the key and simply clips onto a piece of pipe:
The STL provided here is for a attaching a 9-mm key to a 16-mm pipe (floor heating, see photo above). You can easily adapt this to other diameters by modifying the FreeCAD source file.
There are only 2 parameters you need to adjust, everything else is calculated automagically:
IDclip
(the inner diameter of the "clamp") ODkey
(the outer diameter of the tubular part of the key)You could also modify the wall thickness, Thick
- this is set to 2 mm.
I printed mine from some white PLA with 0.3 mm layer height and merely 5% infill.
The author marked this model as their own original creation.