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~~I didn’t know you could still get mice with wheels. I’ve only seen optical ones in the past decade or two. I don’t miss the mechanical ones.~~ Oh wait, you mean the scroll wheel. In the old days there were mice with wheels on the bottom to sense the mouse positioning.

For your mouse, I’d just take it apart if it is possible to do, and clean everything.

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Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m old enough to have used these mice and they were balls not wheels underneath.

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- sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The mouse had wheels which sat on the balls. It was sometimes necessary to clean those as well. Though, I suspect that the person you responded to wasn’t thinking about those wheels.
  
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- Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Technically, the ball moved 2 wheels and the wheels were what would get clogged with lint and stuff, not the ball.
  
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- OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Heavy balls at that.
  
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  - Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Giggity. I still have one in my junk drawer, although I tossed the mouse it belonged to years ago.
    
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- Perfide@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not old enough, apparently. They originally were two wheels, and even when they switched to the ball, there was actually still two smaller wheels inside which were turned by the ball.
  
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- sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I can’t find a pic, but I’m sure-ish (like 70-80%) that I once used a mouse that had 2 wheels on the underside, one rolling vertical and one horizontal. I don’t think it was very good.
  
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