Re: How to open AppleMouse IIe?

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Jeff Blakeney 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.
>

It is, but I'm not using chemicals. I just want to scrub the hand grime off
of the top half of the shell without getting the internals wet.