It Lives! (In Which a PC Mouse is Fixed)

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Muwahahahahaha! IT LIVES!

Once again I have resurrected my second hand logitech G9 mouse from death. Twice have I replaced the usb cable and now, I’ve replaced the spring for the left click switch (after the original one went flying…) and it works perfectly. Fortunately being a bit of pack rat I had an old and non-working logitech MX500 (scavenged the usb cable) that used the next model down of switches, where the spring design was exactly the same as the ones in the G9 :3 So that’s NZ$60+ I wont have to find for a second hand replacement gaming mouse.

And of course, thank thee other tech heads for putting up how to guides: http://www.instructables.com/id/Repair-mouse-with-double-click-problem/

So here’s to being able to play GD without having “fun” with selecting stuff accidentally and keeping a heavily used, 6+ year old mouse working until finally entropy claims it and it is incinerated due to health and safety reasons.

Still, I’ll probably grab a second hand logitech G502 Proteus mouse next year as a spare one, since knowing my luck something will go wrong that I can’t fix without getting soldering gear and spare chips/sensors.

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Well done!

I have a few mouse resurrections histories to share myself.

The first one is about a mouse I had for many years, but from time to time it would have trouble with dust accumulating on the wheel or the button contacts. The mouse was a simple 3-button mouse, but it felt so good anatomically and from years of use my fingers were completely printed on the surface with sweat stains. Anyway, the dust problem was easy to fix by opening the mouse and cleaning, but one day a huge problem happened: rust corroded the screw that allowed to open/close the mouse. I tried different screwdrivers with no success and eventually I tried the surgery of carefully force open the mouse, but it died in the process.:cry:

Another story has a happier ending. I once got a Dell mouse that some dumb guy cut the cable with pliers and by carefully soldering each of the wires of the cable I was able to resurrect it. Now, for years, a mouse that was supposed to go to trash has been the mouse of my work computer.:slight_smile: