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Old 11-05-2006
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Yeah My Mouse Has Not Been Cleanly Or Smoothly Moving Across The Screen I Notice That The Ball In The Mouse Kinda Jams Most Of The Time En It Makes Moving The Mouse Very Hard U Knida Have To Jump Around With The Mouse To Move The Pointer On The Screen.

I Would Like 2 Kno How You Clean Ur Mouse ?

Also Wen I Examine The Area Where The Ball Fits In There R Three Rollers With A Kind Of Loop Of Cloth On Them It Kinda Looks Like Rubber Or Lint , I Want 2 Kno If This Is There 2 Help The Rollers Grip On The Ball Better Or Is This Stuff Causin The Problem ?


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Power OFF, of course...Remove the ball, GENTLY pick away the buildup from the rollers (Trying very diligently NOT to let the pickings get deeper inside the mouse...Hold it at an awkward angle if you must, with the "HOLE" pointing down, working from up under the mouse body...This is nothing more than lint and debris picked up over time...anyway, --->>> GENTLY <<<--- remove the buildup, trying not to "LEAN" on the rollers too much...

Get a Q-Tip (Little stick with a cotton swab on the end), toilet paper twisted up, or, some other resonable SOFT cleaning tool and dip it in some isopropyl alcohol, or, stereo head cleaner, something of the sort, and...again, GENTLY, clean the rollers with it...Lastly, soak a paper towel in cleaner or alcohol as well and give the ball itself a wash and scrub down...GOD, that sounds all TOO sick...LOL...Put it all back together and mouse away...

Later, if you have the grip ($$$), spring for a quality laser mouse and throw away the GRAMPA ball mouse...Sorry, even withthese, sometimes you still have to clean the little laser window on the bottom...

Hope that helps...

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I recommend you through it in the bin as well. Optical mice are cheap as chips and are more reliable...


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Originally Posted by Arctos
I recommend you through it in the bin as well. Optical mice are cheap as chips and are more reliable...
Yeah-- I'll second that... keep the potato-chip crumbs off your mouse area, and an optical will never let you down. Ball mice are a pain.

optical mouse - Froogle


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I third that get an optical mouse they are much more accurate and don't require cleaning of the mouse ball (how? they don't have one).


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