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Level 1

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Cleaning the mighty mouse ball

Does anyone else find their mighty mouse scroll ball has stopped working? It works to move webpages etc upward but not down. Cant work out why. anyone any suggestions on what I can do to get it working again and what not to use to clean it.

iMac 21.5" 3.06Ghz 4Gb RAM, MacBook 2Ghz 2Gb RAM + Mac Mini 1.42Ghz G4 1Gb RAM, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Nov 29, 2009 11:40 AM

18 replies

Apr 30, 2010 6:21 AM in response to DMarsh

The white paper rolling thing worked for me. Finally.. I've tried a knife, tape, alchohol, but this white paper is the easiest, and the best. Thanks!

May 4, 2010 7:58 AM in response to Marshmansmithy

I was getting fed up with my Mighty Mouse.

It scrolled left, right, down but not up!

Tried all the usual methods to no avail and then spotted the white paper trick.

After 10 to 20 seconds a tiny lump of squashed crud appeared on the paper roughly the size of the bottom section of this letter "i" and the mouse now scrolls upwards as well as every other direction.

noice_T

Level 3

545 points

Jul 13, 2010 5:01 PM in response to Marshmansmithy

Great recommendation! Worked great for me!! Thank you!

Cleaning the mighty mouse ball

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