Microsoft Wireless Mouse 4000

[DerbyBorn]

I would quite like to dismantle mine to clean out the accumulated gunge. Any ideas how to open it up?

[The Natural Philosopher]

What accumulated gunge?

[Brian Gaff]

As nobody has posted the usual response to this yet, I will angle grinder.

How exactly though do you get gunge in a wireless mouse, presumably it has no balls and is optical. Brian

[Andy Burns]

sebum, dead skin and hobnob crumbs tend to get in around the scrollwheel

[Davidm]

Don't know about the Microsoft one, but my Logitech one has one screw underneath the battery. Remove this, seperate the top from bottom at the screw end then unhook the two parts. Lots of gunge around the scroll wheel!

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not on mine they don't.

Anyway they are cheap enough. Just buy a new one

That isn't a Microsoft POS

[Lee]

Depends how likely you think you are to be able to remove and replace the skids without crinkling them up.

[DerbyBorn]

Lee [e-mail] wrote in news:IUrRD.18480$ [e-mail]:

That was great. I thik I will leave it. A good blow has got rid of some crud. The tire on the wheel had perished so perhaps I could almost justify a replacement.

[Brian Gaff]

That plastic rubber stuff is a real pain. It seems to be being used all over the place and whether its the sweat of my hands or just a reaction with the atmosphere it does seem that in a few short years it goes sticky and gums up the works and is unpleasant to the touch. Brian

[DJC]

Dusting it with Magnesium Carbonate Chalk can fix that.