This is just a photodump of the mouse mod I did today. Binge sent me an Anker Vertical Mouse which I found comfortable except for the switches. They were too heavy for my tastes. So I swapped out the stock microswitches, which were Zhij, for Omron D2FC-F-7N switches I harvested from a Logitech mouse I had laying around.
Shoutouts to Binge for the mouse and
TheFlyingRaccoon for his excellent disassembly pictures.
Full imgur album can be found
here. Just an FYI, I wanted to see how good my new phone camera was so everything was shot on the S5. There are still some potato pictures so I apologize ahead of time.
I had this wireless Logitech mice sitting around as well as another mouse. This mouse had a nice feeling to the switches so I was hoping they were Omrons. I totally guessed right. Here's it disassembled with a closeup of the Omrons.
Bottom of the Anker has the mouse feet. Under those three feet are screws.
After you take out the screws, you can slide the bottom out, which looks like this.
The side panel with the light panel is a snap fit, so you can just pull that off. You'll have the mouse in 3 parts: bottom, side with light panel, and slide with left/right click.
On the side with the left and right click, you'll notice there's a seam under the click areas. You pry that panel off. It's a snap fit. I used a pocket knife and gently popped it off. In the picture, you can see the 4 snap fits.
After you take off the left/right click panel, you can remove all three sides to get at the PCBs. You can see all the hardware and plastic sides that hold the PCBs together. And then you can see what you can unplug to get the PCBs apart.
PCBs. Swapped the microswitches. You can see the legs because they're in triplet and inline with a slightly larger pad diameter.
LED test. Gotta make everything purple right?
Pro tip, if you're doing this, leave it a little long and then bend the LED until you get the desired lighting effect. I left mine a little too short but I got the lighting to be muted, which I like.
Mouse reassembled. I plugged the mouse in when I had the switches swapped; before I had the sides back together. Just to test to see if the switches worked.
Done. I only swapped the left/right and forward/back buttons. The Anker also has a switch under the scroll wheel so you can click down and a DPI button. I didn't have enough Omron's. I felt that the wheel click was fine. And I won't click the DPI button too much so that can stay.
