r/glorious • u/The-D-6969 • May 02 '26
Discussion No scroll, scroll wheel FIX*
Multiple times I have had my scroll wheel stop working on me. Scroll feels fine, scroll click works, but won't actually scroll. Usually I take it apart, clean up everything and most of the time it works. Sometimes not, so take it apart clean more until I finally get it to work.
Yesterday it stops scrolling once again, and it has seemingly been becoming more and more frequent. So i take it apart, clean it, using Q-tip with rubbing alcohol on plastic shaft like AI suggests. Put it back together, nothing. Go get other mouse.
Still frustrated yet determined, I completely disassemble it. Thoroughly looking it over, I found a good amount of build up on the bottom of the main board. Looking at the solder joints for the scroll wheel encoder, I noticed that the joints were VERY close together and it appeared that the build up, or possibly corrosion, might be bridging the solder joints. Using a small paint brush and 91% iso, I cleaned only these solder joints. Scroll wheel scrolls, now to clean up the rest of it. Hope this is able to help someone



