Re: How to open AppleMouse IIe?

[Silicon Sam <siliconsam@gmail.com>]

On Jan 18, 10:34 am, "Jeff Blakeney"
<jeff.blake...@a2central.com.remove-pxp-this> wrote:
>   To: Michael Black
>
> Michael Black wrote:
> > Another place for screws, in general, is inside battery compartments, so
> > it's always possible (but I suspect unlikely) for a screw to be in the
> > compartment where the mouse ball is.  It's accessible since there is
> > usually a "door" that can be removed so you can get the ball out to clean.
>
> This is the thing I don't understand here.  If the original poster is
> just wanting to clean the mouse, why not just pop the ball out, clean
> the rollers through the hole the ball was in, clean the ball and put it
> back in?  No need to open the shell of the mouse at all unless the
> cleaning involves a retrobrite bath for the shell to deal with yellowing
> but I don't think that is the case.

  After all those years, dust bunnies, and all kinds of mousepad gunk
gets inside the mouse and if they get caught in the photoelectric
cells and the slotted wheel, it could make the mouse not very
accurate.

  Sometimes a little gunk, spilled drink, or whatever gets in through
the mouse button and causes it to feel sticky.  Only way to REALLY
clean it is to take it apart and clean it as good as new.