I have a Dynex 5 button usb optical mouse that I really do like. However, some stupid head at the company decided to glue on the side cushion pads with some really slimy, gooey, craptastic, crap!
When it warms up under your thumb it gets even gooier and starts sliding around getting on my thumb and all over the mouse, desk, arm, keyboard, and it is damn good thing I don’t have a touch screen.
I have tried brute force, rubbing alcohol, Windex, added heat, and it is still all over.
I might have made a little tiny dent in it with brute force.
So any ideas as to what will dissolve this gunk? I can live without the cushy pad on the side if I have to but I really don’t want to melt the plastic housing of the mouse.
OR my keyboard, desk, fingers, Once this crap got loose it is all over the place. Made very much worse by my attempts to clean it off. It just smears around and stays.
I know there is stuff called Goo-Gone, or Gunk, but are these plastic safe?
Alcohol and Ammonia didn’t do squiddly-do to it but make it more slimy and harder to scrub off.
Goo Gone is plastic safe. Gunk may damage some plastics. Rubbing alcohol will also work but will take more elbow grease. The key is to continuously use a paper towel to wipe up the gum residue once it softens and pull it off the surface. Then use a fresh section of towel for the next pull. It will take several soften-pull up cycles to get all the gum residue off.
When you get the glue completely off, you can glue the pad back on with a dab of epoxy. There is no possible residue from epoxy. Either J-B Weld and/or a good clear epoxy should be a staple in everyone’s toolbox. Epoxy can sit on the shelf a long time without deteriorating.
Update, Goo Gone has a New Look and name.
OOPS!
It got the adhesive off the mouse, and my desk. No damage to the desk, but the plastic on the mouse is etched. The sticky gooey stuff is gone though, unless you count the cushion on the other side, which seems to be stable so I am leaving it alone. I am certainly not going to put the cushion back on either. The OOPS! would prolly just eat the whole thing.
Oh well, it feels a little funny but I can live with that. I can let go of the mouse and it stays there instead of coming off the desk and crashing down when the gunk let go of me.
The fingerprints on the keyboard are gonna wait until they wear off, or I find something that won’t chew up the plastic.
Oops is from the same manuf, but is a different product than Goo Gone and is a far more powerful solvent and will damage some plastics. Goo Gone is not discontinued. Whoever told you they were the same thing is wrong.
Yes but some of the WD-40 components are (by design) non-volatile and the smell lingers if it gets in crevices as these will not evaporate. If you can be sure you can get up all traces of the WD 40 it’s fine.