{"id":685,"date":"2007-01-30T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/more-on-cleaning-apple-not-so-mighty.htm"},"modified":"2007-06-01T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T10:20:56","slug":"more-on-cleaning-apple-not-so-mighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/more-on-cleaning-apple-not-so-mighty.htm","title":{"rendered":"More on cleaning the Apple not-so-Mighty Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--117019912923969480-->Last week I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/my-mighty-mouse-is-not-so-mighty.htm\">problems with my Apple <del>Mighty<\/del> Mickey Mouse<\/a>.  Then, a couple of days back, it completely stopped right-clicking and scrolling down.  To say that I was not happy would be an understatement (it&#8217;s not inexpensive and none of my other rodents have died after just 6 months of use) &#8211; the only reason I didn&#8217;t actually get to an Apple Store to replace it was scheduling the time it would take me to make the 100+ mile round trip to Birmingham or London (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/apple-stores-inside-tesco-not-marriage.htm\">somehow, I didn&#8217;t think the staff at the Tesco &#8220;Apple Store&#8221; 10 miles down the road would be any help<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>After reading various articles on the &#8216;net (most notably from <a href=\"http:\/\/theory.isthereason.com\/?p=539\">Kevin Lim<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shirster.multiply.com\/journal\/item\/194\">Shirster<\/a>),  I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanfenn.com\/cleanmouse.html\">Brendan Fenn&#8217;s sticky tape cleaning method<\/a>, following which the right mouse button jumped back into life (not sure what was going on there).  Still left without a working scroll ball (left, right, up, but not down) reading the comments on the Shirster article led me to the realisation that late model Mickey Mice could not be reassembled so I resorted to 70% <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isopropyl_alcohol\">isopropyl alcohol<\/a> swabs (\u00c2\u00a30.10 each from the local pharmacy) and after a few seconds cleaning (with no noticeable dirt removed), I plugged the mouse back in to find that the scroll ball was working again.  I&#8217;m not sure what the long term effects will be, but not being able to scroll down was extremely annoying and if even I have shortened the life of the mouse then that&#8217;s still an improvement on yesterday (when it was just about to head for the trash can).<\/p>\n<p>It still seems to me that the design is fundamentally flawed, but until I can find another mouse that looks good alongside an Apple keyboard I guess I&#8217;ll be sticking with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote about problems with my Apple Mighty Mickey Mouse. Then, a couple of days back, it completely stopped right-clicking and scrolling down. 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