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[DIY] fixing a mouse
ronya
hmmmover there!Registered User regular
hmmmover there!Registered User regular
I have a wonky computer mouse. For a variety of reasons I am finicky about my mice so I'd like to keep this one.
Sadly its left-button has become somewhat unresponsive. I've disassembled it and found that the left mouse button micro-switch needs to be depressed more. To this end I put a blob of UHU glue on the end of the protrusion that hits the switch and waited until it dried before putting it back together; this worked great for an evening... right until the glue, being a malleable resin, flattened into a sheet after goodness knows how many clicks. Then the left-button stopped working again.
I'm thinking I need some kind of sticky and very tiny thing (a cube 1mmx1mmx1mm would be ideal) that I can affix to the protrusion hitting the switch, but I can't imagine what I can get my hands on. Preferably a household or office item, of course...
Would superglue work? In my experience it tends to be brittle when I've tried to use it as a dried solid to fill gaps rather than just an adhesive layer (don't look at me like that). Sadly the contact area looks to be very small.
Sadly its left-button has become somewhat unresponsive. I've disassembled it and found that the left mouse button micro-switch needs to be depressed more. To this end I put a blob of UHU glue on the end of the protrusion that hits the switch and waited until it dried before putting it back together; this worked great for an evening... right until the glue, being a malleable resin, flattened into a sheet after goodness knows how many clicks. Then the left-button stopped working again.
I'm thinking I need some kind of sticky and very tiny thing (a cube 1mmx1mmx1mm would be ideal) that I can affix to the protrusion hitting the switch, but I can't imagine what I can get my hands on. Preferably a household or office item, of course...
Would superglue work? In my experience it tends to be brittle when I've tried to use it as a dried solid to fill gaps rather than just an adhesive layer (don't look at me like that). Sadly the contact area looks to be very small.
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(e: still open to other suggestions, though. I'd like to have a lot of options before affixing something permanently with superglue...)
Works great now!
Credit card would have been a great idea, but too late now