Modified stand for animal skulls (Mammoth skull, Bison latifrons, etc.)

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I've been printing a group of Pleistocene animal skulls for a gift and wanted to use the same stand for each. I took the improved stand for the saber-toothed cat by TheZork and made an adapter that fits over the end and allows that stand to connect to other skulls that appropriately hang at a steep angle. I used this adapter on both the Bison latifrons skull posted by jkhuang (printed at 8%) and the woolly mammoth skull by austinkbutler (printed at 100%). The adapter fits with friction over the top of the existing stand and can be attached to either of these skulls (and many others) with two small incisions with an X-acto blade or a dab of super glue or hot glue. --I've got this set up so that you can either print the stand and the adapter separately and attach them after the fact or you can print a combined version. Both work well. The combined version does not require supports but if you print the adapter, you need to print it upside down with supports.