Comment on How can I clean my mouse wheel without taking apart my mouse?

• 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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