Lionheart
December 22nd, 2009, 12:27
Oh.... and Apples..
If you are the owner of a Mac computer and use the Mighty Mouse, the one with the super small rubber ball bearing web browser knobby that can scroll pages at fast rates as the ball bearing is faster then a large wheel, then.... You must know what its like to clean these..
One trick that doesnt require disassembly, is the old Paper trick. Take a clean piece of copy paper, lay it down on the desk, disconnect your Mouse and hold it upside down with the knobby on the paper. Now act like you are drawing some large circles on the paper, and do this fairly fast. This 'should' get rid of bits of lint or dust build up that has formed in your MM. Look for trails of bits of lint as you are doing this.
Its a quick fix, and works for a while, but cannot clean it all out, so then you will need to do surgery. This entails cutting open your mouse at the lower ring with an exacto at the various glue points, then taking it apart and cleaning out the bits within.
I finally found out how to do this today via a YouTube movie and man, it feels good to have my MM back. I found some very compressed little cakes of dustbunny body parts in there.. Runs brilliant now.
Bill
Ap-Kt_9k3ME
If you are the owner of a Mac computer and use the Mighty Mouse, the one with the super small rubber ball bearing web browser knobby that can scroll pages at fast rates as the ball bearing is faster then a large wheel, then.... You must know what its like to clean these..
One trick that doesnt require disassembly, is the old Paper trick. Take a clean piece of copy paper, lay it down on the desk, disconnect your Mouse and hold it upside down with the knobby on the paper. Now act like you are drawing some large circles on the paper, and do this fairly fast. This 'should' get rid of bits of lint or dust build up that has formed in your MM. Look for trails of bits of lint as you are doing this.
Its a quick fix, and works for a while, but cannot clean it all out, so then you will need to do surgery. This entails cutting open your mouse at the lower ring with an exacto at the various glue points, then taking it apart and cleaning out the bits within.
I finally found out how to do this today via a YouTube movie and man, it feels good to have my MM back. I found some very compressed little cakes of dustbunny body parts in there.. Runs brilliant now.
Bill
Ap-Kt_9k3ME