Mouse Glideability

My mouse isnt gliding very well, i have one of the rocketfish metal mousepads with the "speed" and "control" sides, but my mouse is just kinda stickey and feels crappy. I like my mouse tho and dont really wanna get a new one, anyone know of any good DIY ways to get this shit slidin again like new?

use sandpaper, obv use the smooth side lol
i am serious man. sandpaper is like the sickest mousepad ever

what? the back side of sandpaper?? Thats just paper? cuz the sand part is on the other side. sand paper - sand = paper..
my mousepad is legit, im looking more at my mouse at this point.

i thought you played cs..

skates - like hyperglides, qpad skates etc...

thats what i said when i first had a shitty mousepad and needed one and i found a piece of sandpaper in the house in the shape/size of a mousepad. im serious man give it a try, the traction from the sand on the backside does the trick

well thats just my cheapest fastest solution for a mousepad crisis problem in the house and u cant find anything else.

yep mouse skates, they do tend to peel off eventually but meh they work

fuckin things r 10$, on ebay its only 11$ to buy a whole new mouse.. anyone got any DIY ideas? i was thinking of trying to setup a micro hovercraft idea inside the mouse, fan pushing down onto a small pad making the mouse kinda frictionless.. but i duno i think it would make your hand cold and just crap out if u pressed down hard enough on it..

anyone got any DIY mouse skatez ideas? I tried some aluminum tape shit and it failed hard. thouse skates r made of teflon, i wonder if i can get a like teflon spray or tape or something..

milkman i guess you could probably use something like teflon tape

i would still recommend to buy mouse skates, since they are well worth the 10 bucks, especially if you are sitting infront of the computer using your mouse alot..

i guess ill try n find some teflon tape at the hardware store tomorrow.

i currently use teflon tape and it works great, regular tape doesn't work. you could probably glue something on the bottom and it would work... like some piece of plastic or w/e

you can also use that shiny metalish tape

sry to hyjack. When playing RTS games and I click and drag with my mouse, it doesn't work 2/3 of the time. Although clicking works just fine. Anyone have this problem before? :x

Buy a steelseries mousepad!! its like 50$ and it comes with mouse skates. if i blow against my mouse it allready moves

http://www.steelseries.com/int/products/surfaces

On March 20 2010 08:25 milkman wrote: i guess ill try n find some teflon tape at the hardware store tomorrow.

...why not just buy a new mouse? Seems like a lot of work when you could just buy a std mouse for only a little more than tape+time.

I found 2 used $10 microsoft mice in the laundry room last week, someone was nice enough to not throw them in the trash. Mice are replaceable. =p

Interesting, was considering buying those mouse skates a while ago. But when i got my new mouse the sick 'glide' feeling lasted about a week maybe two weeks, do those hyperglide skates last a lot longer?

using destructor + deathadder atm

Change out the feet on your mouse. I dunno where, but I know you can buy new ones online.

buy steelpad S&S its the swiftest pad around and it comes with gliders

but i already ahve a nice mousepad i like... i got some of that metal tape and it was a total fail, i couldnt find any teflon tape at the hardware store

time to do some science..

ok i figured something out, i took a little clear packaging tape, and covered the exiting worn down feet, then i took a tiny bit of olive oil and put a dab on each foot for extra slippage.. i think cooking spray might get me even further.. but so far this is working good (or better) than new.

heres a pick of my ghetto mouse setup..


got the tape on the feet, and i used a suction cup to one of my monitors and some wire as a mouse cord bungee, it works great.