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Upgrading your Nutone or M&S system to a Ring Doorbell

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***Due to popular demand these plates can be purchased on eBay  click here *** Recently we decided to upgrade our old Nutone intercom doorbell to one of the popular Ring doorbells that allow you to monitor the activity out front of your house.  The wife insisted on having one since she heard of all these horror stories of home invasions and break ins.  So I did what any good husband would do and set out to buy one. Once we received the new Ring doorbell I went to install it out front of our house in place of our old Nutone intercom system but ran in to a big issue ...There was a HUGE hole where the old intercom doorbell system was and the Ring Doorbell couldn't cover or mount in the same place without an adapter plate!  So like any engineer would do, I headed off to my lab where my 3D printer an computer are to start designing an adapter plate! After taking a few measurements from the old doorbell intercom and mounting hole locations of the Ring doorbell I had a 3D mode