Zyn is a brand of nicotine pouches, and they come in a small round can. This is a replacement can you print yourself, with a lid that screws on and a divider inside: about two-thirds for fresh pouches, one-third for used ones or a second flavor. Same diameter and depth as the store one, so it goes wherever that one goes. It was the first Zyn container I put up.
I go through a lot of these, and there isn’t always a trash can around when I’m done with one, so a spot for the discards seemed worth having. Mostly, though, I just thought one with some style to it would be neat.
Threads that wear in
Two parts, base and lid, that thread together. There’s no glue and no magnets. The threads are printed, so they’re a little tight for the first few opens and then wear in. A few turns and a rinse and they run smooth.
The ribbed texture on the outside was an accident. I modeled a smooth wall, and the print came out with a grip pattern I liked better. In my slicer’s “Other” tab there’s a setting called infill gap, and somewhere along the way it ended up at 100% instead of 150%, without my meaning to. That’s the one difference I know of. The ribs only exist in the designer profile, which is the set of print settings I uploaded with the model. Print the raw STL with your own settings and you get a smooth can. How exactly it happened, I don’t know, and I wrote a whole post about not knowing.
PETG, or two-tone
- 0.16 mm layers, 2 walls, 15% infill, about 3.5 hours
- PETG, which has a little give to it. People have also done it in ABS and in clear PETG with a colored lid, and the two-tone looks sharp
- No supports
On selling these
I get asked about commercial licensing a lot, so, for the record: printing a handful for friends or coworkers, putting your crew’s logo on some for the shop, or running a batch to raise money for your volunteer fire department, all fine. One guy printed a set for the guys at his fire station, which is exactly the kind of thing I like to hear. What’s not fine is mass-printing them and listing them as a product.
Files
STL, STEP, and OBJ, because I’d rather you remix it than reverse-engineer it. None of the three has the ribs.