I guess, by now everyone of you has heard of or experienced an issue where the two parts of the Regular Case come apart and the soft silicon deforms.
At one point, I will probably search for a 3D print service to print the one that one of the users here designed. But until then: Monstrosity!
The problem with the case is that a very thin connection surface is supposed to hold a stiff plastic part and a wobbly silicon part together while both of them are exposed to changing temperature and physical forces that deform one part in another way than the other.
What I did was basically to increase that surface manifold. A plastered a fuckload of silicon around the exterior, sealing the opening gaps, connecting what came loose and fortifying what was still connected.
I only left free areas for buttons, sockets and microphone. The result is a Cronenbergish monstrosity of a smart phone. It is fat, sturdy, ugly, got a +2 of fall damage resistance, and is juuuust beautiful in my eyes. <3
The heck?
Those are new. But there must have been a name change, because I am pretty sure that I have had two slim cases that were called slim cases and both had this falling-apart issue.
Who calls the old one “bumper”? That’s a bit confusing since they aren’t really made for bumping.
My bad. I just checked my order history. What they send me as a replacement part in January 2017 was called “regular case”, while the shop only had slim cases for ordering. Since they look the same on the pictures, I thought, they were the same.
Since then I was waiting for something different to be available. But that didn’t happen. Hence, cronenberg case.
