molle water bottle holder

This allows you to attach a water bottle to any piece of molle compatible equipment. It can be useful if you want to save space inside a backpack or just want quicker access to your water. I designed it for my backpack, but it's molle, so be creative!

It is designed to fit a water bottle 81mm in diameter, but i've included a .step file, so feel free to edit to make it fit your bottle. If you can't edit it youself message me or leave a comment, I might be able to help you.

The rubber band pull is optional and tbh it isn't great, but sadly i've lost the editable file for that. I might improve on it later on.

Print instructions:

I printed mine with PETG on my Prusa Mini using the default 0.2mm quality profile. PLA would probably work fine too.

The backplates work better if printed with 4 perimeters, in order to strengthen the area around the boltholes.

The backplates are to be printed with supports for the holes

Top and bottom parts are to be printed “standing up”

Printed parts:

- 2x bottle holder back - 1x bottle holder bottom - 1x bottle holder top - 1x bottle holder rubber band pull (optional) Non printed parts:

- 8x M4x10 bolts - 8x M4 nuts (better if locking) - some kind of rubber band Assembly:

- Put nuts in the backplates - Slide backplate under molle webbing - Feed elastic through the holes in the top part and tie to desired length - (optional) Slide the pull on the elastic - Bolt bottom to backplate - Bolt top to backplate