Battery Door for Yongnuo YN465 SpeedLite

My YN465 flash took a dive off a lightstand a few years ago and the battery door broke, I kind-of got it to stay in place and it worked until last week when it finally failed.

So I designed this replacement door, this is a new design and not a model of the original door - I made it easier to 3D print than the original design.

I only tested it on the YN465 but it will probably fit all the YN4xx models with the annoying sliding door.

The door has electrical contacts, I used a conductive band (probably copper) from an old broken power strip, there are slots in the model to hold them in place.

Print in 100% infill and support touching buildplate (the small "tooth" at the far side requires support but if you add support everywhere it will fill the little slots for the conductive bands).

I printed in PLA (because I had black PLA available), sliced with Cura and printed on my Robo3D R1+

Update

Cura decided this model does not need auto-generated support, Cura was very wrong and my batteries were very on the floor.

I've added a version with supports, the support doesn't touch the side of the door so it doesn't leave a mark when removed, use a sharp knife of a small wire cutter to remove the support from the tooth

Update 2

I wrote a long explenation but thingiverse logged me out and deleted it, so here's the really short version

1. PLA not durable enogth, I switched to nylon, other materials (like ABS) would probably be ok
2. I made a 2nd version, it connects better

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