Cisco Phone Stand Retention Unit

UPDATE:

I had troubles with the spring strength as well as engagement tooth angle and fidelity printing in the orientation I needed, so I have created a V2 that has a “tooth” bar that prints horizontally on the build plate (indicated by text on the model) and added strengthening ribs to the spring bar to apply more pressure against the stand cog. The tooth slides in from the side, and while that seems troublesome, I have printed this model about three or four times without much of a problem with sliding it in. Additionally, I have also created and added an untested variant ("Static") that forcefully wedges the unit against the stand cog and eliminates the ability to position the stand in any position other than the one it was in when it was installed, but the tradeoff will hopefully be that the stand does not collapse unexpectedly. This static unit also may work for other models like the 797X series phones, as the original model does not quite work for them.

ORIGINAL POST:

Not certain of all the models that this will work for, but should at least work for 794X and 796X series phones and potentially others. If your phone's flip-out stand doesn't hold itself up in any position anymore, this is your most likely issue (if there's only one position it won't hold for, it's probably a broken tooth on the flip-out stand itself, but that's less likely to break in my experience).

I printed this on its side for better layer orientation for the “tooth” that grabs the matching tooth on the base and to minimize the amount of overhangs that I needed to support, but there's surely other options for orienting it. that could be even better.

The pins are separate bodies in the same file and probably will load into your slicer weird and force the main body into the air or something. Apologies that I didn't fix the model myself, but you can just break them into their separate pieces and settle them to the build plate. On that topic, I did set the pins a little bit into the build plate in my slicer so there was a flat spot to better adhere to the plate in the horizontal position, where the layer lines would lend better strength to the pins.

Supports: I painted on supports pretty minimally, with only the edge of the flat spring, the overhang above the flat spring and the sidewall that straddles the “cog” of the stand getting supports (i.e. there was no support material in the pivot pin hole or the slot for the pivot pin saddle. Apologies if this whole paragraph didn't make sense; I have my own terms for the parts of this model. If it doesn't make sense, I imagine that auto-generated supports would be fine, albeit more annoying to remove. Or just use the gcode file I added, though the support material is still a little annoying to remove.