M0100 roller

[waynestewart]

Last night while looking in a box I saw the bag of mice I keep handy and decided to clean the rollers. Some I’d done before but a fair number I hadn’t. All went all except a couple of Japanese M0100. The gunk really stuck to the steel rollers. I scraped the thick stuff off but I’m not the happiest with the result. Looks like a bit of corrosion and still some black stuff on the rollers. Probably wouldn’t be hard to clean up better if I could pull the rollers but I’ve never tried with this mouse and a bit worried about destroying it

 

[adespoton]

Since you've already scraped the thick stuff off, you could go over them again now with something softer soaked in isopropyl alcohol to get the rest off -- this is what I've always done, and it tends to get almost all the other gunk. After that? You may want to try emery cloth to clean up any corrosion.

The other thing is that over time the rubber on the ball can wear thin, meaning that the ball sits looser against the rollers. So you may want to consider replacing the ball.