Tomasz Korwel
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July 24th, 2009

Cleaning up Apple’s wireless Mighty Mouse – take two

Posted by tomasz in Life, Work

Many of you probably saw my previous post about cleaning up Mighty Mouse here

After using my mouse for another 2 years I have found out that using this method may in fact become less and less effective (meaning I have to do it much more often that I used to). So I had to come up with something to solve this problem too. Now I’m using a modified method which is much more material involved :-)

I bought small bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol and I put one or two drops on the ball when mouse is still in upright position. then I use ‘Apple method’ of pushing down on the ball and turning it around to loosen up the dirt.

Then I continue with the above method using either white sheet of paper as before, or even better – clean microfiber cloth I got with my new pair of glasses recently. All that helps greatly to get the dirt off of the sensors.

After such treatment my mouse is working flawlessly for over a month now.

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