Hey, so i was messing around with my broken 3.0 (mouse clicked twice = broken to me) and decided to research/ look into what made the mouse wheel so 'loose'. I managed to find out what the cause was and how to stop it :)

Here's how to do it, including pictures. :)

Here's something to ease the reading and 'doing' process.

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Firstly, you will need the following items:

- Intellimouse 3.0

- Penknife/ Stanley knife (if you have neither a kitchen knife should do the job)

- Small Phillips head screw-driver

- Paper

- Scissors

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Once you have all the items i have listed you will need to unplug your mouse and gently peel off the mouse skates and put them to one side

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Once you've peeled them all off and put them to one side you should be able to undo the screws, again but the screws to one side.

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You should then be able to pry off the gray cover by pressing down on the LED part at the back of the mouse, this should then reveal the insides of the mouse.

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You then need to locate and pull off the mouse wheel from its supports, it doesn't require much force.

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After having taken off the mouse wheel you will need to get your paper and fold it up into a small square/ rectangle (this may include cutting it down to size).

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You then need to put the paper in front of the red bar type bit of plastic, it will have to slide in between the bar and the black support for the wheel.

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You then need to put the wheel back in, just like you took it out.

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The wheel should now feel a lot more sturdier and harder to scroll with. If not, try using a little more paper, if it is too much use a little less.

After you are contempt with the scroll wheel you should put the gray case back on, it should just clip into place, then just start to put the screws back in and start to tighten them.

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After tightening them all simply just re-stick the skates back in their slots, if they are no longer sticky try using some sort of glue/adhesive.

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And there you have it, your mouse should no longer do the annoying jump in that all important clutch of the premier cup final! :p

You may also want to look into ways of making the side buttons sturdier if you so wish. :)

Hope this helped!

great guide, mx516 is the best though ;)

omg.

Sure this is useful to someone out there :)

this is one of the most bizarre guides I have ever seen, im sure someone will find this useful though, thanks xD

 HugzZILA its a common thing for 3.0's :)

that's to much work just buy a real mouse g9 or g9x. problem solved

 F1sheR Im pretty sure its a 'real' mouse. And people on cadred are appreciating it alot

 F1sheR my cable broke on the g9 and then when logitech sent the replacement g9x out I sold it at i40, prefer the bigger mice now, like the kone, deathadder and intelli

lol cadred is full of trolls, or am i missing something?

 F1sheR cadred is a bit hit and miss, but loads of trolls

 DazzyJ I gave up on cadred a long time ago

well did it literally broke or lose connection? well I've had this g9x over one year now and still no problems detected.

 F1sheR admittedly it does have a fair amount of trolls, however, in the thread i posted theres been no troll posts. And an intellimouse is in my opinion the best mouse i've had, and by far the cheapest (deathadder, copperhead, sidewinder, mx518 and a few more)

 F1sheR it lost connection to the USB, but one thing Logitech are good at is customer service, they replaced it without any questions asked

 DazzyJ Could that also not suggest they are lazy also? Actually, i suppose we'd have to know what they did once they'd recieved the mouse back, bin it or look into it

 MentaLLL They didn't ask for the mouse back, its still in my box :) they just sent the new one out.

 DazzyJ 1. Claim your current ones broken

2. Get new mouse sent to you

3. Sell new mouse for just under RRP

4. (gotta have it soz4o) ????

5. profit

 MentaLLL A lot of scammers did this using PID generators recently, so you may find yourself having a harder time doing it than I did :)

Damn meddling kids!

good guide apart from those grimy pubes inside your mouse.

 rooba those ginger pubes do stand out in the black case :/

 eLm not ginger, also i bought it for £4 from a business :)))))))