Folding Laptop Stand Improved + Bigger

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Loved the idea. Made some improvements that suited me and made sense for my needs and I made it flexible for other laptop sizes. You'll need to print both wedges and both beams. Then choose your spacers, if any, based on the desired beam width as shown in the annotated rendering. First step was I needed a wider one that would fit my large laptop that I could still print on my 200mm printer so made the middle something I could expand sized as needed. See the picture for how to use the spacers. Make sure to put the rounded side of the spacers on top to match the beam contours. Screws always go down from the top, nuts on the bottom. I tried to keep the middle fold or folds but that ended adding too much instability in the stand and tended to fold on it's own and almost collapse while holding the laptop so I got rid of it. I'd rather try to keep it thin so it can fit in the sleeve type case with my laptop. I've got the models ready so I could try to add it back to the hinges to the spacers if desired, but I have not found a way to lock those hinges in an open position reliably. Then I wanted to keep the wedges open with no danger of them collapsing back in so I made the hinges limited to 90* open and added a locking slot to keep them there until pushed closed manually. It will no longer opens all the way flat as a single thickness riser. You get two layers thick laid flat with wedges closed or riser height when upright. It still uses m3x35 screws. Any longer and it might scratch the laptop. You'll need 4, 5 or 6 screws depending on which spacers you use. Also uses M3 lock nylon nuts, same number as the number of screws. Press them in with some expanding pliers. Or if you you can try to pull them into the slots using the screws if you've got some 40mm+ M3 screws and then swap to the shorter ones afterwards. I originally thought the idea was the laptop would ride on the back ridge and the wedges, but I realized the wedges are just there to hold up the back ridge. I had to sharpen the angle of the wedges from the original so they would fit my longer laptop. It didn't work with original angle wedges. I added some rubberized grip tape to the top to help it not slip and I also added a little bit of masking tape into the beam grooves to help the locking slot work as well as it could. Might also need some grip on the bottom to help it not slide on tables/desks.