2026-08-26 (W) EleKSCo REV05 Revising the cap

I thought about how difficult it would be to revise the butt cap to print without support material, since it could get trapped. Eventually, I realized  I did not need to print without it. I changed the design to simply have a gap between the hexagonal portion and the expansion petals. Any support between these layers might restrict the model from compressing, but I was only concerned with expansion, which would break the support plastic but not interfere. I found a few ghost errors in my model that made it render incorrectly, fixed them, and updated the cutawayView variable so it would not accidentally render the model incompletely. I reduced the distance between the petals, made the taper shallower, and sent a copy to the printer.

Revised butt cap

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