{"id":216892636,"date":"2009-06-23T19:34:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T07:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundbyyou.wordpress.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:36:58","slug":"squeaky-clean-mighty-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216892636","title":{"rendered":"Squeaky Clean Mighty Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like a fair few Mac users before me, I have had more than one or two issues with my Mighty Mouse.\u00a0 I have tried the ‘clean the ball by rolling on a cloth upside down’ method on a number of occasions but the results never seem to last for long.\u00a0 Sooner rather than later, I end up losing the ability to scroll up or down or both.<\/p>\n

After swapping out my Mighty Mouse for an RS-inducing mini travel mouse yesterday and in the full certainty of voiding my warranty, this evening I got the tools out and dissected my mouse.\u00a0 Following the advice and pictures on a number of websites, including mightymouserepair.com<\/a>, a post on theory.isthereason<\/a> and another on shirster’s blog<\/a>, I prodded, poked, levered and flexed my way into the mouse.\u00a0 Once inside and having disconneted the ribbon cables, I disassembled the workings, cleaned the ball assembly and casing with isopropyl alcohol and then reversed my actions to rebuild my squeaky clean mouse.\u00a0 After a quick check to ensure all was well and the ribbons were reseated properly, I reattached the outer ring with a few dabs of a weaker glue than Apple’s Chinese assembly folk use (my guess is that I’ll need to do this again) and taped it to set overnight.<\/p>\n

There’s a few scratches on the case from slips of my craft knife and the warranty is toast but, given that I was looking at NZ$111 plus carriage to replace it, I’d say that I had nothing to lose and came away with a result.\u00a0 So, if your Mighty Mouse isn’t working and you have more time than money, dig out your tools and dissect that mouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like a fair few Mac users before me, I have had more than one or two issues with my Mighty Mouse.\u00a0 I have tried the ‘clean the ball by rolling on a cloth upside down’ method on a number of occasions but the results never seem to last for long.\u00a0 Sooner rather than later, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216892636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216892636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893256,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892636\/revisions\/216893256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216892636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216892636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216892636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}