Sunday, July 23, 2006

Good mouse? Worn-out feet? Have a spare dead mouse?

If you have an older, dead mouse lying around, don't throw it away just yet!!! You can actually try to salvage the the teflon feet from the bottom of it. These teflon feet are the things that allow your mouse to glide with such ease over whatever mouse-pad or surface you use. But without it, using your mouse would be such a... "drag"... lol.

I've gone to websites such as Xoxide.com, who sell replacement teflon feet for seemingly any mouse. But for people who choose -not- to buy stuff online or are hella cheap and frugal... like me... well the method above is the perfect if not the only solution.

What you need is any old, non-working mouse that has some teflon feet to scrape off from, a glue gun with a glue stick, and of course the other -WORKING- mouse you intend to stick the feet onto.

I took the feet off of a dead Logitech MX-300 (optical) and installed it onto the optical mouse for my Power Mac 6100.

Here's some pics: