Post by BuckSkin on Oct 26, 2020 8:40:35 GMT
Gradually, so much so that I let it sneak up on me, my mouse had gotten sticky feet to the point that minute maneuvers were a lurchy jerky nigh impossibility.
I was on a massive Wire Worming mission and finally decided I was going to have to do something about it.
I poked a Q-Tip in the alcohol and wet and scrubbed each of the little pads and then dried them with the opposite end.
I decided I could do even better than that and went out in the shop and got the Liquid Wrench Silicone Spray Lubricant.
Having enough sense to know that, if I tried to spray directly on the little pads, that I would end up with it dripping off my elbows, I put the little red straw into the nozzle and sprayed a squirt into the garbage can; I then let a couple drops drip out of the straw and onto each pad.
I laid the mouse upside down and left it while I did something else.
The difference is amazing; now, that thing skates around like a front-wheel-drive car on ice; whereas before, it was like pushing a wheelbarrow with a flat tire, now I have to hang onto it else it will end up in the floor.
I read somewhere that giving the pad a good washing will help even more; that is my next project.
I was on a massive Wire Worming mission and finally decided I was going to have to do something about it.
I poked a Q-Tip in the alcohol and wet and scrubbed each of the little pads and then dried them with the opposite end.
I decided I could do even better than that and went out in the shop and got the Liquid Wrench Silicone Spray Lubricant.
Having enough sense to know that, if I tried to spray directly on the little pads, that I would end up with it dripping off my elbows, I put the little red straw into the nozzle and sprayed a squirt into the garbage can; I then let a couple drops drip out of the straw and onto each pad.
I laid the mouse upside down and left it while I did something else.
The difference is amazing; now, that thing skates around like a front-wheel-drive car on ice; whereas before, it was like pushing a wheelbarrow with a flat tire, now I have to hang onto it else it will end up in the floor.
I read somewhere that giving the pad a good washing will help even more; that is my next project.
