On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:38:47 GMT, Joerg
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:18:05 -0800, Joerg
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:43:00 -0800, Joerg
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:48:36 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
wrote:

And because no alcohol made is purely without water, no matter how high the
proof, it will slowly (perhaps 8 hours, perhaps a day depending on the water
content) come back to life.

You can hasten the process by a slightly elevated temperature, but I'm
loathe to go above 80F on drying any electronic component for fear of
shortening the x axis of the bathtub curve.

Jim
The mouse is behaving quite well now. Since I always have a spare
on-hand I'll think I'll make that a regular cleaning procedure ;-)

The first part of the thread doesn't show on my server. What did you do?
Dunk it in twelve year old Scotch?
I poured denatured alcohol into the battery compartment and it ran out
around the buttons.

After around 8 hours of drying it's working like new.

Hopefully it didn't carry any essential stuff out with it. If it's the
Logitech that I have then at least it doesn't have bearings with grease
in them.

How do you get so much crud into it anyhow? Eating chips while doing CAD?

Peanuts ;-) Actually I have oily skin (*) which collects on the
buttons and, I'm sure, goes down into the innards, collecting dust.

(*) Bugs the wife something fierce... she's always needing lotion for
her dry skin... I never do ;-)

One thing I did find is that it pays to install better contact switches
into a lot of stuff. I always keep a bunch that have good tactile feel
and are nicely sealed.

When I find a mouse I like I usually buy three at a time. I rarely
repair anything... time is MONEY.


It is but I try to use spare time to repair stuff. Mostly out of
environmental concern. Our society throws away enough stuff as it is. So
yesterday I fixed, sharpened and lubed the big garden shears I had
busted hours before. $30-40 would have bought a new set but that goes
against my grain.

Plus every time I repair something electronic I learn new things, albeit
sometimes mechanical tricks such as enclosure technology. "Ah, that's
how they did it!"

I fixed my mouse* in less time compared to driving in traffic, finding
parking at the store, shopping around, waiting at the cash (no I don't
want the extended warranty), then driving in traffic to get back home.

Even an E*bay mouse takes too long.

*Breakage due to cable flexing.

So..yeah...buying many 3 mice makes sense.

Modified:

Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They used to work but now no more.
Have to replace them all what a chore.
.....
(I couldn't finish the rest. Took too much time..)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Blind_Mice
D from BC