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Mini MagSafe Zyn Container

A thin Zyn container with a MagSafe ring in the base, so seven or eight pouches ride on the back of your phone.

Oct 19, 20243D PrintMagSafe34–41 min print + glue-up

A gray 3D-printed Mini MagSafe Zyn Container on a glass patio table Its lid lifted off and white pouches inside.
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Zyn makes nicotine pouches, and they come in a round can. That can is basically a hockey puck, and it’s never in the pocket you checked. This is a smaller one that sticks to the back of your phone, because your phone is the one object you reliably know the location of.

MagSafe is Apple’s ring of magnets on the back of newer iPhones, the thing magnetic wallets and chargers snap onto. Put a magnetic ring in the bottom of a little can and the can snaps on too. That’s the whole trick. The idea was a pouch dock, so I’d stop losing a Zyn in the middle of a panic-coding session.

Seven or eight pouches

A three-part container: base, lid, and a tray that gets glued in. It’s 59 mm across and 12.8 mm tall, thin enough to ride on a phone, and holds seven or eight pouches, which is about half a can. The magnet is a universal MagSafe ring adapter, the kind you buy in a ten-pack, dropped adhesive-side down into a recess in the base. Those are thin magnetic rings with a sticky back, sold for adding MagSafe to cases that don’t have it. Anything from 1.2 to 1.6 mm thick fits. The ones I use are iOttie rings, at the thick end.

The lid closes in any orientation but only opens in one. There are alignment marks on the lid and tray so you’re not spinning it like a safe dial. It sounds fussier than it is.

ABS, for pockets and cars

Modeled in Shapr3D and printed on my Bambu X1C in ABS, the same plastic LEGO bricks are made of. I recommend ABS for this one because it lives in pockets and cars, and ABS shrugs off heat better than PLA does. PETG is a fine second choice. A few people have printed it in clear PETG so they can see how many pouches are left without opening it. Smart.

  • 0.4 mm nozzle, 0.16 mm layers, 15% grid infill
  • Two designer profiles, so you can print it on my settings as-is: the MagSafe version, and a plain one with no recess for people who just wanted a small can
  • 34 to 41 minutes on the bed, then a dab of CA glue (superglue, basically) to mate the tray to the base

If the lid is stiff off the printer, that’s normal. Put it on, give it a dozen turns, wash it, and it loosens into something that feels like it came out of a mold.

What the feedback changed

The non-MagSafe profile exists because enough people asked for it that ignoring them started to feel rude. That went up in February 2025. The other requests that keep coming up are a divider for used pouches and a smooth insert for the base. The divider I get. The threaded one has one.

Remix it, don’t sell it

STLs for all three parts, plus the STEP files zipped up for anyone who wants to remix it. STEP is the editable version, if you’d rather change the shape in whatever you model in than just print it. It’s under MakerWorld’s Standard Digital File License, which in plain words means print as many as you want for yourself, don’t sell them.

This is sick!… Really nice to see how many pouches are left without opening it.

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