Cleaning my Mighty Mouse's scroll ball
Having followed Apple's advice repeatedly to clean the ball on my Mighty Mouse, today, it came to the point where this would no longer work.
Following the rather more drastic advice of mightymouserepair.com, I soon got the mouse apart and found the cause of the problem:
There's no way that rubbing with a damp cloth would ever have got all of this out.
Fortunately, I was able to prise the plastic ring off the base of the mouse with my Swiss Army Knife with no cosmetic damage to the mouse and then glue it back in place with silicone glue, as recommended by the website. However, Apple really should have designed the device so that it could be taken apart and cleaned by the user more easily.
[ Entry posted at: Tue 13 May 2008 15:47:41 BST | 0 comment(s)... | Cat: Hardware ]