Re: How to open AppleMouse IIe?

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-pxp-this>]

 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.