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written by john lewis

Mighty mouse dissection

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I’ve been noticing for the last month that my scroll ball on my Might Mouse was becoming slightly less reliable until it finally stopped altogether last weekend. I could scroll up, left and right – just not down (which is probably 90% of it’s use). So I pulled it apart with only a minor snap in the outer ring – this could’ve been avoided if I was a little more careful and patient.

Cleared all the grime and dust out of the ball mechanism and put it all back together. Works much better now only I need a little spot of glue for the outer ring.

Posted in: Apple

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There are 2 responses to Mighty mouse dissection

Phil
Thursday, 1st June 2006 4:13 pm

I thought we went optical so we didn’t have to do that anymore! :-)

umami
Thursday, 1st June 2006 8:35 pm

Heh, yeh – only this was the scroll wheel on top of the mouse that got clogged. Sounds like it is quite common and a bit of a design flaw from Apple.

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