To start with, my opinion of the Apple mouse is that it is a poorly designed piece of overpriced garbage. I’m also to cheap to pay the ten bucks for a good mouse when I can repair the piece of garbage I already own. Something you should be aware of, the mouse is not designed to be disassembled, it’s designed to be thrown away and replaced after it breaks. If you follow my instructions and destroy your mouse, that’s not my problem. Lots of videos on how to do this on youtube, my battery was almost dead so you get pictures. Scroll ball gumming up is the main problem I’ve had with my mouse, takes me about ten minutes to take the mouse apart, clean it, and put it back together.
First, the tools; I used a pry bar, a phillips #00 screwdriver, and a uco cleaning tool. All available from County Comm.
First thing you need to do is remove the batteries and pry up the gray strip around the battery compartment, bit tough to do the first time around. I use super glue to reattach this.
Next, you need to pry up the white skirt. Also use super glue on this.
Here’s what the mouse looks like with the white skirt removed.
Carefully pull it apart, the two pieces are connected and if you pull too hard then there is a good chance that you will break something.
Two ribbons, green and gold. I use the orange uco tool to push back the black tabs holding the ribbons in.
Removing the ribbons will separate the top and the bottom
The scroll ball is in the black boxy thing. Unscrew the screws.
The housing, the top shell, the screws.
Closer look at the scroll ball housing
The white cage should pop right off
All of the parts laid out.
The Sad thing is, I would really like to like this mouse. Two years and it still mostly works, the manufacturer should be commended and the designers should be shot.
