Tues 08.12.08 - Today my brother kindly repaired both the damaged case and the volume / zoom button of my Nokia N95 with his solder iron.

On Saturday, Scruffy decided he was going to chew on my phone and damaged the back plastic housing of the mobile to the point where it would have to be replaced or the phone would be ruined within a couple of months from exposure. That evening I ordered a Hello Kitty faceplate / housing / case that I found on Amazon.com to replace the damaged one.

By a strange miracle of the US Postal Service, the Hello Kitty faceplate arrived today. I was quite excited, pulled it out, and realized quickly that it was meant to be snapped on over the existing housing not a replacement for the original. I tried to snap it on, but the Scruffy chew damage was such that the Hello Kitty faceplate would not snap on. At all.

After lunch, I went in search of my brother who is very handy and can fix an amazing array of cars, boats, objects, etc. Luckily for me, he was working from home and had his gas powered solder iron in his truck. I decided that the case could not get any more fubarred, so I let him see if he could melt the plastic back into place.

And he did! Yeah! It doesn't look pretty, but the case now snaps on properly and protects the electronic innards of my mobile.

While he was at it, I asked him to solder down the broken volume / zoom contact point and it is now working again! Yeah!

Super Joe to the Rescue!