Introduction
For this teardown you should have a small phillips screwdriver a flathead screwdriver or some other kind of prying device. A 3mm phillips screwdriver will work for all of the screws in this teardown. Note: This teardown does not include removing any components from the internal PCB.
Tools
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Undo the bottom battery clip and remove any AA battery within.
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Remove the USB receiver if stored
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The device should look as pictured.
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Using your prying device, pick at the corner of the lower rubber traction pad on the bottom of the device.
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Pull this traction pad off to reveal the screw underneath.
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Unscrew this middle screw using the small 3mm phillips screwdriver.
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Carefully disconnect the top click pads.
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Unscrew the two screws on the top front of the device.
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Using prying tool undo the back clip piece shown.
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Remove two screws in the top back of the mouse.
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Pry the top and bottom halves apart.
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The mouse should now have two separate parts as shown.
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Using prying tool press against the bottom of each side of the click wheel apparatus to cause it to snap out of place.
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Remove 2 Screws from either side of the click wheel on the lower tier of the PCB.
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Remove the 3 screws from the top tier of the PCB.
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Remove the screw holding the small PCB to the plastic backing
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Parts of the PCB are listed below and correspond to the colored circles on the pictures
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LED tracking apparatus
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Battery power receiving mechanism
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Left and Right Click Buttons
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Click Wheel Button
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Scroll wheel sensing apparatus
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Programmable Button
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12 comments
Thank you for this guide. It helped me successfully repair my mouse!
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great, thanks for do it!