mlwh%sphinx@Sun.COM (Martin Hall) (10/15/87)
What is the best way to clean the mice that come with the new Mac SEs
and Mac IIs? It seems that they get dirty much quicker than the Mac
Plus era mice. Is there a simple way to clean them with out taking them
apart. Is it best just to scrape the dirt of the wheels or is there
some type of solvent that should be used?
----Martin L. W. Hall---- Sun Microsystems
HASA member {allegra | hplabs}!sun!mlwh@sphinx or mlwh@sun.COMkeeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser) (10/16/87)
In article <30989@sun.uucp> mlwh%sphinx@Sun.COM (Martin Hall) writes: |What is the best way to clean the mice that come with the new Mac SEs |----Martin L. W. Hall---- Sun Microsystems |HASA member {allegra | hplabs}!sun!mlwh@sphinx or mlwh@sun.COM The stuff I use to clean the mice at work is RealClean<tm>, it is manufactured by Tacklind Design, Inc. 250 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 The cleaning kit consists of a plastic tweezer to pick the lint off the roller shafts, a flywheel-on-a-stick-with-a-rough-edge sort of tool (I don't know a better description, in the kit they call it "the tool") and a bottle of cleaning solution ( 91% isopropyl alcohol, 9% water). You put a few drops of the alcohol on the tool, insert it in the cavity which holds the roller ball, and twist it around a few times. This usually takes all the junk off the rollers. -- Kees Standard Disclaimer: I have no connections with Tacklind Design, other than as a satisfied customer. | UUCP : keeshu@nikhefk.uucp or {[wherever]!uunet}!mcvax!nikhefk!keeshu | BITNET : keeshu@hasara5.bitnet | FIDO : 2:508/15 (Opus_MacSaga) or 2:500/11 (HCC_Amsterdam_1) | SNAIL : kees huyser, NIKHEF-K, PO Box 4395, 1009 AJ Amsterdam, Netherlands |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (10/17/87)
I don't know about the ADB mice, but for the older (Lisa, Mac 128k/512k/Plus)
mice there's no need to buy fancy mouse cleaning kits. According to a friend
who was part of the team that did the mechanical design for the Lisa, the
roller ball was designed to be washed with plain old soap and water and dried
with any lint-free cloth. As for the roller bearing and the opto-detector
shafts, I use a Q-tip dipped in isopropyl alcohol to get the gunk off them.
Mike Khaw
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USnail: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303khayo@sonia.cs.ucla.edu (Erazm J. Behr) (10/17/87)
Not really about cleaning: our department has some of those
rubberized fabric mouse pads and the mice riding on them gather
an enormous amount of gunk on the rollers; every day the mouse
gets completely stuck which is very annoying (the rollers are
hard to hold in place for cleaning). When I bought my own Mac I
decided to experiment a little and for the past year I've been
using a $2 vinyl "dish placement mat" or whatever the official
name is - the thing that goes under the hot plates on a glass
top dinner table. I wash it with water/soap every week and,
believe it or not, my mouse's rollers and balls have not been
cleaned once since I got it and they look factory new. Try it. Eric
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