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Microsoft mouse repair tip

I have a Microsoft PS2/USB optical mouse I'm partial to, no longer available at retail, and right click stopped working.

Took it apart, the switch operated normally but the contacts were not closing. It's tiny and plastic - not repairable. I considered swapping in the scroll wheel switch, since I wouldn't miss it, but noticed the board was silk-screened and drilled for a larger rectangular 3-pin switch as well as for the square 2-pin one currently installed.

I dragged an ancient Microsoft mouse out of the junk bin and desoldered a 3-pin switch - fits and operates perfectly.

The old switch appears to be of higher quality - maybe I should have swapped them all while I was there :-)

Sunny

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Sunny wrote in news:6qSgf.20541$gK4.481732 @news20.bellglobal.com:

I find that my LMB goes first, followed by the scroll wheel micro-switch (lots of Cad work). The Wheel switch tricked me at first as I didn?t know that double clicking the wheel would "Zoom Extents" untill I found that panning was not working evey time

Now ever dead mouse in the office gets sent to me for repairs

Wes.

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With me, it`s the thin plastic 'hinge' on the left button that always breaks requiring surgery and hot melt glue. Probably a result of too much Unreal Tournament in the tea breaks.

Ron

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