Archive for April, 2008
Opened and cleaned my Mighty Mouse
You might have ran into the same problem. The scrollball of Apple’s Mighty Mouse does not respond as well as it did before when you used the mouse for several month already. Today I had enough of rubbing the ball with a moist or dry cloth or doing some crazy experiments with tape or what ever you may find on the net to make this go away… I just wanted to hurt this little m…..f…… ]:)
Before you read on or even do the same to your mouse as I did keep in mind: the grey ring from the bottom of the mouse that has to be removed will break with a chance of something around 100% - there might even happen worse things when you are not carefull with the tools - but after the operation is complete - your mouseball will scroll as it did on day one. Basically it is a simple cleaning of parts but Apple wanted to give us a hard time getting this done. In case you have to redo the entire session, the grey ring is already removed and things will go much faster.
By the way - you do this at your own risk! I will not get you a new mouse in case you screw up yours :)
Now, what I did was crack the mouse open with a knife. To do so you just need to drive a knife/screwdriver (carefully!!! do not cut yourself or the internals of the mouse) between the grey “ring” and the side buttons of your mouse. The ring is clotted to the upper case of the mouse, so you have to crack it apart by carefully tilting the blade.
Once the ring is removed (even if it breaks as it did in my case) enter the mouse with the screwdriver at the rear end at the left then at the right and open it. There are two plastic studs - one on every side that are only clicked in the bottom part of the mouse and will release it pretty easily.
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