Universal tool carrier plate for Prusa MK3s extruder

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This is a universal tool carrier plate for the Prusa MK3s extruder. You can use this to mount tools, addons, basically anything to your extruder.
It is super easy to mount/unmount by just unscrewing the two screws from the part cooling fan and one screw from the cooling shroud.
It takes basically 90 seconds to change.
An example project would be a laser to turn your 3D printer into a laser cutter / engraver.
I personally use this for mounting a dial indicator.
The carrier plate has a vertical mount on the front and a horizontal mount on the underside of the extruder.
Front is 24x24mm, underside is 12x24mm and the first hole row has a distance of 13mm from the nozzle center. Both vertical & horizontal hole sets are symmetrical to the nozzle center. (See drawing for measurements)
You don't need any equipment to mount this plate, although you do need at least 4x square M3 nuts & 4x M3x10 screws to mount stuff. If you intend to use both sides, you need 8x M3 square nuts & M3x10 screws. (There should be a few ones of each in your MK3s spare bag!)
Note that you cannot heat the hotend, as it would melt the carrier!
Please share & upload pictures of your tool creations, I'm really interested.