Comments on: Merging mice

By: kenichi

kenichi — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:06:59 +0000

= <—- Modified molded mouse clicker
(fits into the hole)
O <—- Switch hole

I think this switch is not an Omron one,
so if you modify it, it will bend the inner part too early, and you won't be able to repair it.

By: kenichi

kenichi — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:02:49 +0000

you can also wash the textil underpart, after you dry it it will remain sticky. i wash it regularly, because the dirt makes it harder to move on the surface.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:19:30 +0000

Top notch, my left click keeps double clicking when depress it, very annoying, will open up and see if I can fix it.

Thanks a billion :0)

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:53:51 +0000

I don’t have soldering tools so I used another approach. My switch (left button) was still working, but needed to be depressed more than the engineering would allow.

Instead of trying to mess with any electronics, I modified the molded plastic piece that is part of the mouse clicker. The plastic that actually touches the switch is a rectangle that is pushing down on the round switch. The rectangle doesn’t push “into” the switch, but “onto” the switch.

I simply took my pocket knife to *carefully* shave the left and right ends off the rectangle to make a square, which is smaller than the switch’s round hole, so that it was able to penetrate the switch button with more force than before (having not been previously able to enter the switch’s opening). I tried to ensure the remaining square had as much plastic as possible (to maintain Here’s an illustration:

Before:

=== <—- Original molded mouse clicker
(doesn't fit in the hole)
O <—- Switch hole

After:

= <—- Modified molded mouse clicker
(fits into the hole)
O <—- Switch hole

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:31:04 +0000

I had this exact same issue. For me it worked opening the mouse and just pressing on the button to make it work better (also i tried to clean it a bit). I also remoed the weight, which i think is way better, so the mouse is not so heavy anymore.

Thanks for this tutorial.

Have a great day!

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:51:53 +0000

This is just what I was looking for! The mouse buttons have been driving me nuts recently. I’ll be checking out the local Fry’s to see if they have the switches I’ll need.

By: Elliot Russell

Elliot Russell — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:54:47 +0000

the soldering iron that i use is employing a ceramic heating element:.~

By: martin

martin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:02:12 +0000

Well, we don’t buy a $300 tablet just to use the mouse. We buy a $300 tablet because we need a $300 tablet with a stylus for drawing. But once that tablet occupies your best desktop space, there is no place to use a mouse anymore, and you still need a mouse. Most regular mice don’t work very well on top of a tablet for a variety of reasons, and there’s no space for using a mouse next to the tablet, and you don’t want to stick the tablet in a drawer every time you need to select something from a dropdown, for instance, so all the real tablets come with both a stylus and a mouse. That mouse, unlike regular mice, is designed to work fine on top of the tablet. Until it doesn’t work anymore, and that’s where my blogpost comes in. Does it make sense now?

By: tjams

tjams — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:30:46 +0000

why would you guys buy a $300+ tablet to use just the mouse?

why not buy a $300 mouse?

i dont get it…

By: Jim Potter

Jim Potter — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:57:04 +0000

Nicely done article!