Took my mouse apart - HELP!

“Congratulate me! For some reason, while trying to clean the rollers around my mouse ball, I decided it would be a good idea to take the mouse apart.

HORRORS! aack, you don't want to see what might have accumulated inside a 5.5-year old mouse!!!


anyhoo, I cleaned with alcohol and got it back together and it works... BUT, the tensioning spring for the scroll wheel came off and I'm at a loss of just how that goes back on.

The mouse works, but the scrolling is sorta wild right now. LOL!

Help?!??!??”

“Don't Do That.”

“Um... you're not supposed to take it appart THAT much...

Easiest solution is to goto Wal Mart and buy an optical mouse for $20.”

“I took my mouse apart yesterday too. Okay now the little kidneys, do they go back in before the mousey spleen?”

“DOH!”

“Only our dear lizs would do this.
Bless Her Heart.


*Hugs*”

“your mouse has balls??!!...time to castrate that thing and get a new one...go ball-less, you'll never go back to balls again”

“I'll come up there and fix it for you..playing with balls can be a LOT of fun in MIXED company!”

“Crikey, all you engineers and computer techie types don't know how to put the tensioning spring back in??!?!??

You guys are nincompoops!

>8-O

:-)”

“My guess is that you scored a big fat ZERO on the nerd quiz?”

“Who's the nincompoop? =D Their mouses work.”

“Their mouses work

is it mouses or mice?, i've always wondered that”

“Throw the mouse out & get a TRACKBALL”

“Any woman that can destroy a pepsi can stove the way lizsbaby can, has no biz taking a mouse apart. ;-)”

“Engineers don't fix think lizs the upgrade.

So ya I agree go to Wally world or for that matter anywhere and get a $20 optical mouse. I don't own a single balled mouse now. If fact they don't even have tails (cords) anymore.”

“Save the liver!


---Julia Childs”

“this reminds me of a funny story at work...we all got optical mouses(mice?) about a year ago...and for some reason we still have people who insist on using a mouse pad, even with their optical mouse...i don't know why but that just cracks me up every time i see it
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“Oh, I am laughing so hard now, Lizs. You crack me up.”

“I still use a pad with my optical.I'm super ultra light weight, so ,I sleep on it when I hike.”

“I bet she sat on the spring...”

“I use a mousepad with my optical mouse too. Its got a gel wrist pad so I don't get carpal tunnel and a cool "precision mousing surface" that lets the optical mouse read my movements more accurately than if it were on my desk.


Why don't you take it to your local mouse repair shop lizs? I'm sure they could help you.”

“I thought you would have a mouse in place of a hand, Violin...like a pirate's hook, only dorkier.
:-D”

“i thought this thread was about bearmagnet.”

“Give me a few days to think of a good comeback to that one.”

“LOL!”

“hee hee hee! ;-)”

“No, that's me.”

“You guys are nincompoops!

>8-O

:-)”
lizs

I didn't take my mouse apart and then blab about it on TT.”

“Gotta go with 'Beet on this one.

Okay liz, step one, get a #7 Fitzer coupler, apply approximatly 3.00734898777902 millinewtons of pressure to the spring contracting it to a length of 4.12383984 microns. (you will have to be exact with this, one micron off and you shatter the space time continum.)

Next .....damn whats next guys? My page ends here.”

“How to fix your mouse

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:05:56 -0500

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“With the right hand, grasp the mouse housing and with the left hand, gently insert the coupler into the housing, remembering to keep the coupler shaft perpendicular to the fulcrum.”

“LOL, I managed to take a mouse apart and put it back together and it works. The spring tensioning is nice, but I can live without it.

Thought I'd give you computer whizzes a chance. phhhht!!

All you can think about is your BALLS!

PHHHT!!

LOL ;-)”

“I'm quite attached to them.”

“LOL, I managed to take a mouse apart and put it back together and it works. - lizs

Did you forget to insert 'kinda' between 'it' and 'works'? ;-)”

““I bet she sat on the spring...”
DeoreDX
11:51:07 AM
2/03/06

haha, a bouncy tusshy..........”

“SHEESH!! Well see if we help you out ever again!!!”

“My optical mouse was working perfectly fine until I read this thread.

Now it's going bonkers on me.

I changed the batteries. Hopefully that fixes the problem. Good thing I keep a mega pack of AA's around the house. Batteries are a girl's second best friend. ;)”

“Damn you Ruby!”

“You know it just hit me....if someone was going to fool with my gnipgnops...I would prefer a warm hand...and a light touch. Maybe you moved it around too quickly and you had a premature spring pop off....”

“Just throw the mouse in the drawer with all the broken cameras and get a new one.”

“lizs - The spring goes like this:


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“Nice red "X" (although I'm scared to see what he posted!)”

“Violin, You continually impress me...wait....where is my mouse?....OH DARN”