On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 08:40:56PM +0200, Alexis Grigoriou wrote: > On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 17:01 +0100, local10 wrote: > > Dec 19, 2023, 15:30 by hfollmann@itcfollmann.com: > > > > I've been replacing them, I have 4-5 mice like that, they all fail > > with the same defect after 6-12 months or so. So I thought perhaps > > there was a way to fix them instead of buying a new one every 6-12 > > months. > > > > Been there done that. Cheap mice have cheap switches which fail sooner > than later. Gaming mice are more expensive, but they are rated for 10- > 20million clicks. Way more than than the cheap ones. In the long run > those gaming mice come cheaper. I have an Evga X3 mouse at work i got > in 2018. It still works and it cost just 30 euros. As I said, I fixed a couple of them where the switches weren't the failure, but rather the mechanical transmission, which became "too short" (most probably because the frame around it became too long). A thin shim did the trick. Cheers -- t
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