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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Experience with alternative mice?
Summary: You can also do this....
Keywords: My cat ate my mouse!
Message-ID: <1860@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 90 08:40:34 GMT
References: <669@obi-wan.ACA.MCC.COM> <2391@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <2391@milton.acs.washington.edu> whit@milton.acs.washington.edu (John Whitmore) writes:
[...]
>	Now put the original connector onto the cord (solder to
>the individual contacts; they can be pulled out of the connector, I 
>think), and reassemble the mouse.

  I wasn't able to do this when I fixed my Plus's mouse.  The little contacts
are... well... little!  What I did instead was to unsolder the plug from the
mouse's PC board and solder the wires directly in its place.  If you're not
very dextrous with a soldering iron, you might do that instead.

  Also, don't you have to actually do some slicing and dicing on the strain
relief to get it to come off?  I certainly did.  Perhaps womebody could post a
coherent explanation of what to cut if anything?

--Mike