Mighty Mouse humbled by a little scroll , etc

Hi - I have practiced due diligence i.e. continually cleaning the tiny
Mighty Mouse Scroll Wheel with a relentless vigour suitable for
cheery endings . But no , this has not spared me the reliving of
balky or dodgy scrollery . Yes the relentless scrollery of which
I speak is more of the lack of it than an overabundance of it .
So despite serious devotion my Mighty Mouse Scrolling wheel
has left most motion to elbow grease technology . The remnants
of up and side ways are testimony to a yesterday which if memory
serves included down for a starter . What relief is there for scrolling
down the page when mysterious acts reduce my Mighty
Mouse ? I am willing to thank anybody who is possessed of insight
into the defense of a Mighty Mouse Act , So say all of us , F
G5 Dual 2 GHz PPC G5 Macbook Pro 15" refurb w/Shoulder Chip on Mac OS X (10.4.8) Seagate 160 G and Seagate 300 G

Frederick, I share your pain.
After a couple of weeks, my Mighty Mouse trackball would only work to scroll down pages, not up (and I rarely need to scroll sideways).
One shouldn't have to clean the trackball every day in order to coax it to do its job. Suggestions that users can just use their keyboards to navigate pages are the products of pure idiocy, the type that Apple acolytes are inevitably forced to deploy when trying to make Apple's dire attentiveness to practical matters seem acceptable; the fault being placed with users, rather than products that fail to execute the basic tasks for which they were made.
Don't get me wrong, the Might Mouse is aesthetically divine and I loved it when I first got it. Well, that was until week two when the trackball packed in. A wasted $60 that could have been better spent on the visually hideous but practically superb Logitech mouse.
Oh well, life with Apple continues (just about).
Mac OS X (10.4.2)

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I am also pretty clean with my Mac. I found that cleaning as recommended by Apple was sufficient, until about two weeks ago, nothing I did to clean it, short of the misadvice to stick a needle into the ball socket, was successful. I found a website that shows how to disassemble the mouse carefully with an Exacto knife and did so. I was amazed at how dirty the rollerbars, especially the one to scroll down, were, in spite of my faithful cleaning routine. When I reassembled the MM I just used a couple strategic drops of super glue to secure the one ring that is glued in place. It will be much easier to disassemble the next time!
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*Hi cloudmountain, Welcome back* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
Most likely it just needs cleaning. Lint free cloth, slightly damp w water or alcohol. Unplug and vigorously and firmly roll the scroll ball around. Blowing it with canned air can help too.
Search the forums on "clean mouse" or "scroll." There is an Apple Support page as well.
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First, let me apologize if it is not the proper section to post my question. I didn't find a relevant section relating to mighty mouse.
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Sorry should have made it more clear haha. I have 2 wired ones, one when they first came out,then got fed up with the scroll wheel not working, so got a new one about 2 months ago which also went funny (again scroll wheel).
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Unless your "non-lint free cloth" was wet toilet paper or paper napkin, I don't think it would cause this problem.

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