diagram for metal strip on back of mouse cover?

I would let them fix it, or more likely replace it.

You never know what they might consider exploratory surgery instead of being helpful.

Hooray for AppleCare.

the exact same issue happened to me just now. reattachment of the strip looks as though it would be intuitive, but i just can't get it to reattach. any thoughts would be welcome.

A metal strip has come off the inside battery cover
for my wireless mouse. I've figured out that this
strip pushes on a lever which allows the light to
operate once the mouse has been turned on. Since the
strip is now loose I can't get my mouse to stay on.
Is there a technical diagram of the back of the
mouse cover so I could see how to reattach this
metal strip? We have applecare, so it would be
replaced, but I'd rather fix it now. Thank you very
much!

iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi--

But, I just can't make it "stick on" to
the cover so it works all the time. I don't know if
it was glued on, or somehow I'm missing another piece
that holds it on.

I don't think it's glued to begin with. Mine came undone after a couple of years. I put the little metal strip on the cover and put a small drop of epoxy glue on the two little pins. As you know, it's important for the metal piece to lay as flat as possible to the cover, so that's why I didn't put any glue underneath. That held for a while, but just recently that pulled loose, too. Unfortunately, I made a real mess trying to repair the repair, so I'm without a mouse right now.

Will call applecare sometime today
and post what they tell me so you'll have the info,
too.

I'd be most interested in what they say. Even if I could just buy the cover separately, I'd do that. I've actually switched to using a tablet, but there are certain times when a mouse would still be good to have.

charlie