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Non Tool Forum => Gadget Freak and EDC Forum => Topic started by: Blackbeard on May 12, 2019, 07:16:36 AM
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I dare you to clean your computer mouse and not (http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e105/CommentCrazyGirl/Smileys%20Emotions/Sleepy%20Sick/smiley_emoticons_klokotzen-1.gif)
Mine is about 8 years old and scroll wheel was not spinning good. After I took cover off and tapped the bottom while holding upside down, all manner of filth came out; Lint, dust, dirt, skin, paper, food, eyelashes, hair, eyebrows,,,,and still not working good.
Hit with air duster, toothpicks and after about 1 hour I managed to wedge out a small piece of paper along with more debris from the list and its working like a champ, but it should be in the trash....after seeing this I don't think I will touch another persons mouse without a bottle of hand sanitizer nearby. These things are gross :rofl:
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Good lord man!! I have taken two of mine apart in the past and never all that come out. Sure some dust but that was about it.
Now, at work, I looked into one of the keyboards once. They looked like your mouse!! Nasty!!!!
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Good lord man!! I have taken two of mine apart in the past and never all that come out. Sure some dust but that was about it.
Now, at work, I looked into one of the keyboards once. They looked like your mouse!! Nasty!!!!
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It was probably worse then it should have been due to age and never cleaning it before, but it's probably worth the money just to buy a new one
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I usually just replace mine every 3 years or so... something always starts acting up.
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Usually I clean it whenever I was munching on something, and bits and pieces fell into the crack of the keyboard, that happens about every few months. :popcorn:
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Clean it every now and again, never seen anything too terrible.
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Actually since we stopped having balled mice and gone optical they seem to get less gunked up.
The good ole days of cleaning gunk off the rollers and washing the ball itself with dish soap...
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Actually since we stopped having balled mice and gone optical they seem to get less gunked up.
The good ole days of cleaning gunk off the rollers and washing the ball itself with dish soap...
I remembered that! Balled mice does require more regular maintenance...I wonder how do people clean those big ball tracker mouse though.
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It was fun to take the ball out of a coworker's mouse without them knowing. >:D
My modern adaptation is to tape over the sensor of an optical mouse. :D
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It was fun to take the ball out of a coworker's mouse without them knowing. >:D
My modern adaptation is to tape over the sensor of an optical mouse. :D
Thank you, Syncop8r! >:D >:D >:D
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Haven't had a trackball mouse since we got rid of the old HP Pavilion from 2002 about 4 years ago.
For me, the switch in the middle button always fails within a couple years or so. I went with MadCatz (seeing as after the company went bust, their products were being liquidated at pennies on the dollar), and I've not had an issue with my RAT 1s or RAT M, and have the added benefit of programmable buttons for whatever.
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Haven't had a trackball mouse since we got rid of the old HP Pavilion from 2002 about 4 years ago.
For me, the switch in the middle button always fails within a couple years or so. I went with MadCatz (seeing as after the company went bust, their products were being liquidated at pennies on the dollar), and I've not had an issue with my RAT 1s or RAT M, and have the added benefit of programmable buttons for whatever.
Just FYI...
The R.A.T.s are back!
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33928817488_6a7dafc757_c.jpg)
:D
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my patient had a serious relapse, so I was able to wedge the tracking wheel out, removed more clumps of paper, and 3 wads of what looked like fiberglass insulation...I don't know if they use this in the manufacturing/construction....I don't know what it is/was or if thats what your finger skin becomes in this gross dna dumpster :rofl:
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Trackball ! I get Best Buy flashbacks whenever I see one. After years of being forced to use them then switching over to Apple's magic mouse... :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
I keep my Logitec wireless mouse and keyboard squeaky clean. I freak out and sanitize my desk area and declutter once a week. Seriously, I have Clorox wipes, swifters, and monitor wipes in a drawer by my tower. ::) ::) :D :D
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I dare you to clean your computer mouse and not (http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e105/CommentCrazyGirl/Smileys%20Emotions/Sleepy%20Sick/smiley_emoticons_klokotzen-1.gif)
Mine is about 8 years old and scroll wheel was not spinning good. After I took cover off and tapped the bottom while holding upside down, all manner of filth came out; Lint, dust, dirt, skin, paper, food, eyelashes, hair, eyebrows,,,,and still not working gohad od.
Hit with air duster, toothpicks and after about 1 hour I managed to wedge out a small piece of paper along with more debris from the list and its working like a champ, but it should be in the trash....after seeing this I don't think I will touch another persons mouse without a bottle of hand sanitizer nearby. These things are gross :rofl:
I just saw this! :rofl:
I cleaned my wireless mouse out a couple of days ago. I was really surprised at what I extracted. Lots of cat hair, some of mine including a very long one all curled up (not a pube - in fact there were no pubes, honest, I swear :P), and a huge wad of lint, dust, and small bits of paper that filled the front around the scroll wheel click switches and had turned the mouse into an unpredictable maniac.
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I had a similar experience with the cheapo whose mousewheel died on my birthday a week ago, popping it apart showed me all sorts of filth that you couldn't tell existed from the outside. But alas it wasn't a fixable or worthwhile issue, so it's been replaced, and I didn't bother cleaning it.
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:worthless: :D
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:worthless: :D
:rofl: trust me you don't wanna see them.
On a slightly different note, does anyone have trouble left clicking links on MTO recently or is it just me and my decrepit mouse? I don't notice it on other sites, but here I find I have to click links more then once to get them to open :think:
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Keyboards, mice and mobile phones will spread the next plague :salute:
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Keyboards, mice and mobile phones will spread the next plague :salute:
You forgot bathroom door handles. :to:
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You forgot bathroom door handles. :to:
yeah after you wash your hands you have to grab that nasty thing to leave bathroom in a public place :rofl: