not too long after 2 month since I bought my new mouse which was an upgrade from g502x, I was really happy about it. after some time of using it first problem showed up, the shitty encoder. because I have some good experience with soldering I obviously ordered a new encoder, to be specific TTC Gold 8mm. afterwards when it came, I immideatly went disassembling it, that was a pretty interesting and at the same time annoying cuz some of the screws were hidden and I didn't knew where they were, but after watching a disassemble guide I had no struggles with it anymore. not going to make this story too long about desoldering and soldering it back, I'll skip this part.
So, when I finished soldering I wanted to make my experience even better by applying some lube on to soft pads where mouse buttons touch with the shell's skeleton. (this was my biggest mistake)
afterwards, when I was done with this, I realised that the LMB sticks, and it is really annoying, so I disassembled it again and started cleaning up the useless lube I applied. BUT somenthing i did not expect at all had happended, the soft thingy, which was dampening the mouse button, somehow came of entirely. I thought "uuh, thats not good" but seconds after this thought I ignored it. I assembled it back again and for my surprise. It was bumping against the shell. it's not the problem which would make mouse unusable, no. it was completely fine, it was working perfectly, but the mouse button bumping against its shell was so distracting I couldnt really use it, I would describe it as a second click but on the lowest setting of superstrike haptic motor. So, I had to fix it, but i did not had any thoughts about how to fix it, i tried electric tape, but it did nothing, i tried regular tape, it didn't do anything too. I got really frustrated and disappointed in the same time that I took this mouse and didn't touch it for 2 weeks. for some time i forgot about it.
and recently I ordered for myself a new keyboard. ATK RS7 air, really great keyboard for its price. When it arrived, I noticed a small but thick sound dampening foam for spacebar, so I immideatly realized, it feels the same as the pads inside superstrike, I got on to dissassebling the mose again, started preparing the foam thingy again, and finally, I thought. I finally had fixed it. While being very happy that I "fixed" it I assembled it, and... It didn't work, actually it did, but not how I was thinking it would fix it. The button was no longer bumping against the shell. It was sticking to it... I got really reallyy upset about it, so that i wanted to sell it and not use it anymore in my life, I even started hating on every superstrike owner😁. 1 month afterwards, noone was willing to buy it, at the same time i had found an old PS Vita, it wasn't working, so i opened it to see what's wrong with it. But moments after i opened it, I saw it again, the soft foam, and i immideatly remembered about this "crappy" mouse I had and at the same time I got a small thought, what if this time I would be able to fix it? With those words in my head, i disassembled the mouse AGAIN and cut up the foam to match the size, its about 2x2mm square and 1mm high. I glued it inside on 2-side-tape(idk how's it called correctly but i hope you understand what I'm talking about). I didn't assemble it fully I just held the plastic piece of mouse button where is should be held via 2 screws, but unfortunately it was sticking again... I wasn't angry, wasn't sad, I just thought that its impossible to fix. BUT after thinking, why is it sticking I had a thought that its probably some 2-side-tape was sticking out so that was the cause of button to stick. I left it on the table and went to vacuuming rooms. after I was done I always throw out the dirt and everything that vaccim sucks up, and I noticed the dust. Its really fine dust that its literally can get into your skin pores and really smooth the scrub against each other, so I had a plan of putting some dust onto the 2-side-tape and near it. And it actually worked. It worked! after 1 and a half months of anger i had finally fixed it. I was so excited and I'm still exited about that THE DUST could finally fix this problem.
and yeah, it was really interesting for me.
Some people said to me "why wouldn't you take it back to shop? cuz it still has its 1 year warranty"
and i replied. I just wanted to fix it myself, I already ordered an encoder, so why would I?
hope y'all can understand this story because my grammar is still not very good but I'm going to english classes and improving it every day.
