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| Thread ID: 108171 | 2010-03-16 22:37:00 | Weakest Part Of A Mouse (Not The Rodent) | Trev (427) | Press F1 |
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| 867824 | 2010-03-17 00:12:00 | At one of my old schools they have the cables go right near the usb plug. They have boxes of mice with it. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 867825 | 2010-03-17 00:13:00 | I've only had one give up on me like this, and it was an intellimouse. If you do want wireless, the batteries in the new logitech mice are lasting up to around 180 days now, hardly a worry, you'd be unlucky if you had to replace batteries twice a year. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 867826 | 2010-03-17 01:20:00 | Rechargable batteries may help. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 867827 | 2010-03-17 02:44:00 | I fix mice with broken wires in the position described often, it is a simple easy job. Just open the mouse, cut off the broken wires and re-terminate at the plug where it goes into the circuit board. Re-run the cord back through the labyrinth, re-assemble mouse and you good to go. Solder directly to the plug right where the wires come out or pull the plug out and solder directly to the circuit board, no insulation required if you are clever and have good fine motor skills. What have you got to lose you were going to throw it away anyway. Lots of the things I use all the time are from fixing other people's throw-aways, lol including my car and my computer. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 867828 | 2010-03-17 04:53:00 | If you get a cordless mouse, make sure you get one with either bluetooth or the little USB receiver, not the big USB receivers that stick out a long way and get broken off. This sort of one (www.ascent.co.nz) is a good one. |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 867829 | 2010-03-17 06:13:00 | Ok just bought my first Logitech mouse a MX 518. All my previous optical mice have been MS. Would of liked the Logitech G500 but nobody local has them. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 867830 | 2010-03-17 06:30:00 | Or try a TrackBall, we have several here, all would be 10 years or better in age and still going strong. Still have a cord though the mouse itself never moves. Not every one likes trackballs though. |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 867831 | 2010-03-17 06:52:00 | Never broke a mouse cord ever, and corded mice are the only ones I've ever used. Even got mine stuck in a car door and had the USB plug driven over (not slowly either!) and it still worked... I did replace the cord though, just to make sure it didn't randomly short-circuit or something in the future |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 867832 | 2010-03-17 08:38:00 | I'm not hard on my mice, just that they get alot of use gaming. Still use a MS Joystick I bought in 1998 has done a few thousand hours flying Flight Simulators and also a MS Force Feedback Wheel that has had a quite a few hours use in driving games. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 867833 | 2010-03-17 10:33:00 | Dude some wireless mices lasts 6+ months on battery | Ollie (794) | ||
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