On 3/18/26 02:13, leebc via Discuss wrote:

That is typical of a mouse whose switch button was not fully seated
against the PCB when it was originally soldered in.  And it is something
someone who can re-solder it solidly against the PCB can fix.  What has
happened is that because it wasn't seated properly, the switch will
gradually pull the copper foil away from the PCB by a thou or so and a
million clicks of the button will cause a contact when the switch
closes, then a break as the copper separates, generating the first
click, then when the finger releases the button, the foil remakes the
connection before the switch reopens, giving the computer a 2nd click as
you lift the finger.   We get used to a certain "feel" & a new mouse is
often different enough to make you want the old one.   I've probably
restored 50 mice that way.

The best fix is usually a piece of 30 ga wrapping wire, soldered to the
switch contact and long enough it will take a few million more clicks to
break it again, soldered to the PCB trace a half inch away.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

• Louis D. Brandeis
  Don't poison our oceans, interdict drugs at the src.

On 3/18/26 02:13, leebc via Discuss wrote:

2 questions:

1: Why am I still getting more copy's of this post a week later with no
additional content?  The only thing changing is the return address.

2: Why are my posts advising how to repair that flaky mouse being routed
to /dev/null?
My post describing how to fix it, probably forever has not come back.
I have no clue if the OP even saw my reply.

Yes, it could be called off-topic but its a topic I as a C.E.T. who CAN
SOLDER,
I've been doing it for a living for about 80 years and am very familiar
with,
and I enjoy helping where I can.  Today,  modern production methods have
reduced good manual soldering to an almost lost art.  And its something
that in retrospect in having several assistants over the last half century,
cannot be simply taught, its an art form more than a procedure to be
taught.

If someone decided my post was off-topic, then so was the original I
replied
to a week ago. . . I shouldn't make that mistake again, but YMMV.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

• Louis D. Brandeis
  Don't poison our oceans, interdict drugs at the src.

On 3/19/26 13:10, gene heskett via Discuss wrote:

Your message made it to the list just fine.  I have not been getting any
additional copies of the message you replied to, though.

Jeff

I find Microsoft mice always develop switch bounce after a couple of years.
It isn't a bad connection, they just don't debounce the switches properly.
The only solution is to replace the switches.

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 at 19:52, Jeff Ross via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:

[...]

Hmm, my t-bird is confused?  Possibly.  I have not been really happy
with it for a couple years.
 Thanks Jeff.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

• Louis D. Brandeis
  Don't poison our oceans, interdict drugs at the src.