An eye for an eye, a tooth for a wire.
Long story ahead: I had a surfing accident years ago and hit my upper jaw on the board when falling off, my 2 front teeth were 45° inwards and one of the teeth next to them was knocked out, had to swim 200m~ to shore with a board in tow, a tooth and a considerable amount of blood washing around in my mouth along with salt water getting into the wounds, suffice to say I don’t surf anymore and my canine is now next to my dead and root filled front teeth.
2 months ago while eating breakfast a part of my tooth broke off with a loud snap, didn’t hurt (the benefit of dead teeth…) two days later I had a dentist replace the missing part with some clever plastic that hardens under ultraviolet light.
As you can see on krill3.com/blog/mods/ I got a jacket with wiring I made myself for my old Sony Ericsson z800i, well I got a Nokia n73 (lovely phone by the way) so I had to rip half of the wires out and re-do it, I bought a Nokia AD-46 as a base for the new portion of the mod:
I’m not a tall man and with the microphone part at your collar (where it should be) the connector end is waist level, and my phone is in my pants pocket, 5cm short of it and I’d like 10cm added to that so I can raise it to see the screen.
I cut it in half, stripped the very soft rubber and paper (?) to find nine leads in there… I knew I had quite some work ahead of me, I don’t have a wire stripper, I use a knife, scissors or in a pinch my teeth instead, I’m currently halfway through the soldering but paused to post this photo:
Yes said plastic bit didn’t like being used as a wire stripper…
Guess I’m heading back to the dentist sooner than I’d like.
I hope my dentist & insurance company doesn’t read this blog. *whistles*
