Mouse Refurbish

I think you probably would have succeeded, It was fairly straight forward (no loose parts flying everywhere), Don't undersell yourself, I'm 85 and can still do it.

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We're almost the same age. I'm about to turn 82. But my thought that I might not succeed is not based on my age. I've never been good at working with my hands.

Well, never without my choosing; in theory I could accidentally send the wrong one (the Followup and Reply buttons are adjacent), but I don't think I've actually done that in several decades of using it. What it won't do is send _both_ at once, as its designers felt strongly about that - irritating as I _occasionally_ _want_ to.

Well, s/he's not exactly inviting, just pointing out that if you _do_ decide to send an email, that her email is munged. []

Guess I'm lucky, my hands have been my living But my eye sight is piss poor, born that way.

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The buttons are adjacent here too. I've occasionally done it accidentally, but I've always caught it and fixed it before I pressed Send. I use Outlook e-mail, not Agent's, so the Windows look very different.

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I'm almost sure it's a she, but I can't remember her name.

I suppose it's technically not an invitation, but to me, telling the reader how to do it is so close to an invitation that I have no problem with calling it that.

It's sort of like, "If you want to send me a check, my address is ..."

Hi Paul,

Here are more pictures of that IBM mouse, which I'm still using now that I refurbished it (although I had to glue a side stick on it to keep my fingers away from the right mouse button since it's a poor design for huge hands like I happen to have).

Anyway, here are the pictures I took when I disassembled it:

The tilted LED simply lights up the middle mouse button (AFAICR).

If you want, I can snap a photo of the side stick I glued on to make it less error prone, where I learned that it's critical for a mouse to have a landing space for your right-mouse finger to "rest" without being too close ot the right mouse button itself.

People doing that inappropriately (and not indicating it) is one reason I stopped putting a valid email address in newsgroup postings.

On usenet, I use addresses ending in .invalid so its obvious its not a real address.

Another suggestion is to read your posts before pressing 'send'. It catches a lot of the weird typing and other errors.

Not only is it obvious, but it's the only proper/standard way to do it, as .invalid is a standard-defined [1] top level domain (TLD), which is guaranteed to never be used.

RFC-compliant 'mailers' (Mail User Agent (MUA)) will not even try to send a message to an address with an .invalid TLD.

Yes, you can get replacement switches for the buttons, this is the classic symptom of worn-out switches. It seems all the mice and trackballs use essentially the same micro-switch, so you can salvage them from other mice or buy from Digi-Key, Mouser or whoever your electronic parts supplier is.

Jon

try a 0.1uF across the switch contacts

Why?

the 0.1uF provides a crude de-bounce function and also the small arc helps keep the contacts clean. m

I understand that, but it takes time for the capacitor to discharge. How slow of a mouse do you want? Just replace the worn out switches, and let the software in the Mouse controller take care of debounce.e.