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thank you thank you for

a stranger — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:16:19 -0400

thank you thank you for alerting me to the hidden screw. i was just about to break mine too when i read your post.

why the hell would they hide that screw anyway? dumbasses.

fred

Logitech Solution ... in the

a stranger — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:42:00 -0400

Logitech Solution ... in the hopes of helping someone else learn from my mistakes, here is the secret to disassembling the Marble Mouse from Logitech...

There is a hidden screw! The bottom of the mouse with the model, serial number and other information isn't really a solid piece of plastic, but a stick-on label made of material exactly the same color as the plastic of the base. If you peel away that label, you will see a deep shaft with a Phillips head screw running right up through the center of the mouse. Undo that and you can lift the top of the mouse off for cleaning.

I, unfortunately, didn't discover this until I ripped my mouse apart by brute force.

Dust Bunnies Ate My Mouse

mrG — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:17:41 -0500

Here's a why on the hellish handbasketness of the digital consumer age: who ever heard of irreparable dust damage?

I have this Logitech Marble Ball trackball, I love it, outside of poor fine-motor control at tracing lines or outlines, for all the usual use-case sweep/select motions of mousing about, it's one step short of psycho-kinetic control. Fast forward a few years, way past cleaning the ball pivots, and, as happens with all electronic switches anywhere near humans, dust collects, made worse likely because of the compressive action of using the device. My mouse-1 button now sticks or fails to grab, very annoying, but you and I both know it is just a matter of shooting the switch with some contact cleaner, 10 seconds work with a Q-tip and a screwdriver.

Only, unlike your normal ball-bottom mouse, removing the screws still won't let the shell budge, and levering the edge of the buttons with a blade won't yield. I'm stuck, so I contact Logitech support.

Modern tech support. Nearly always a bad idea. Last resort of the desperate. Emails bounce back and forth until I finally convince someone that it's the buttons and not the ball that bothers me ...