Chicken Water Dispenser with Thread for PET Bottles

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Was looking for a water dispenser for our chicken and found this one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:229545 But I didn't like that you had to glue the cap of a bottle into the dispenser for two reasons: A) I wanted to avoid PLA but print in PETG, to make the dispenser more withstanding to the outdoors - but PETG is hard to glue stuff to. B) when I go to the "trouble" of 3D printing stuff like this, I like to have it as ready-made as possible. So I simply looked for a PET bottle thread and found this one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1953920 Then I simply merged it to the original water dispenser design in Tinkercad and voilà - works like a charm for us! Just for ease of use for any fellow maker, I also remixed the very handy support ring with bracket (stolen from here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2998718), but made it adaptable in width to fit multiple bottle sizes. Thanks to all fellow designers for their work! Update, Feb 15, 2022: After a couple of weeks, we found the hook on top of the ring broken off. I thought I'd made it solid enough, but apparently not. (Might as well have been our kids fooling around with it, as they love to hop into the chicken coop to play). Anyway, I just updated the design with a slightly more sturdy hook.