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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Dead mice
Summary: 'tis fixed
Keywords: Mouse mice
Message-ID: <905@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Oct 89 03:00:55 GMT
References: <879@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <21104@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1322@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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Well, since I started this whole thing off, I thought I'd update people as to
what has happened.  I received many suggestions by mail, in addition to the
ones posted here.  One procedure (I'm sorry I don't remember who sent it) I
followed almost verbatim:  You check the continuity of the wires with a multi-
meter (or a light bulb if you don't have a meter) to find out which one was
broken.  My mouse adds one more point to the "It's usually the green wire" 
trend.  Then, pull on that wire.  The insulation breaks and the copper part
comes out.  You can use this to see where in the cable your wire broke.  My
mouse, being a conformist, broke in the stress-relief grommet, like most
apparently do.  Then, you just pull the cable further into the mouse (you have
to sever the connections of the cable to the grommet, which you can do with
an X-ACTO, or similar tool.  Strip the insulation on the cable back to the
point where the break occurred.

Now, here's where I deviated from the normal procedure.  I couldnt reattach the
wire to the Molex plug that joins the cable to the PC board, and I didn't much
feel like soldering directly to the pins of the plug because I hate soldering
wire to pins.  SO, I unsloldered the molex plug from the PC board, which left
a neat row of holed on the board. I just soldered the wires direct to the board
and scrapped the plug entirely.  All in all, 30 mins...  Works great.

--Mike