Telephone Receiver Hook for AT&T CL4940 by petropixel

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

This is a receiver hook for AT&T CL4940 phones, as well as possibly other similar phones like the CL2940. It seems recent corded landline phones still have very comprehensive mounting slots on the back for wall mounting (I assume this is covered by some international engineering standard), but the way of actually keeping the receiver hung up when the phone is wall-mounted seems to be a complete afterthought. On these VTech/AT&T phones, it's just this 2mm tall tab holding it in place. Hanging it up isn't really all that difficult once you've had a look at it, but some of the older members of the household have had trouble with it, so I designed this. The shape of the receiver prevents me from making it as effortless to hang up as the Western Electric 2554 we used to have, but this hook at least doesn't let it fall on the floor and it now only takes a little push to make contact with the switchhook/end call button.