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Title: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: TotalChaos on Sun, 03 August 2014, 04:51:47
I bought a mouse that grinds and drags on the table.  Its tiny little mouse feet are too small or too shallow or just made from the wrong material or the bottom of the mouse is shaped a bit wrong so its belly drags.  I donno which.

Can I buy some new thingamajigs to glue under my mouse and save it from a life of living in the closet and never having anyone to play with?

What are the slippery plastic foot slider thingies made out of ?  POM?  Teflon?  Other?
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: epzy on Sun, 03 August 2014, 05:31:20
I think they are called "mouse skates".
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: munch on Sun, 03 August 2014, 06:48:01
most aftermarket better quality ones are made from teflon, and they tend to be called skates as epzy says. or simply mouse feet.
hyperglide, puretrak and corepad make a lot of these for different mice.
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: Coreda on Sun, 03 August 2014, 06:57:13
"Toes", wearing tiny flip-flops.
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: MJ45 on Sun, 03 August 2014, 07:06:49
I bought a mouse that grinds and drags on the table.  Its tiny little mouse feet are too small or too shallow or just made from the wrong material or the bottom of the mouse is shaped a bit wrong so its belly drags.  I donno which.

Can I buy some new thingamajigs to glue under my mouse and save it from a life of living in the closet and never having anyone to play with?

What are the slippery plastic foot slider thingies made out of ?  POM?  Teflon?  Other?
Sounds like you need a mouse pad.
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: ideus on Sun, 03 August 2014, 08:27:31
Here  (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xmouse+teflon+feet&_nkw=mouse+teflon+feet&_sacat=0&_from=R40)is a link to a search in ebay for mouse feet.
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: iLLucionist on Sun, 03 August 2014, 14:48:10
Mionix calls them 'glides', see here:

http://mionix.net/accessories/
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: TotalChaos on Sun, 03 August 2014, 16:00:47
I bought a mouse that grinds and drags on the table.  Its tiny little mouse feet are too small or too shallow or just made from the wrong material or the bottom of the mouse is shaped a bit wrong so its belly drags.  I donno which.

Can I buy some new thingamajigs to glue under my mouse and save it from a life of living in the closet and never having anyone to play with?

What are the slippery plastic foot slider thingies made out of ?  POM?  Teflon?  Other?
Sounds like you need a mouse pad.
I always use mousepads.  I bought a bunch of mice and this one mouse, the "Manhattan Mouse" is defective.


@Everyone else:

Thanx guyz!  Now that I know the topsecret lingo of the Brotherhood of Competitive Mouse Scientists, I can now find whatever I need!
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: GL1TCH3D on Wed, 20 August 2014, 22:52:42
I called them glide pads o.o
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 20 August 2014, 23:13:17
I had no idea you can get these separately!

One of mine invariably falls off, so I take the other one off (most of my mouses seem to have two small ones either side, then a long curved one at the other end).

I tried taking all 3 off, but the mouse completely stopped working - I guess it was too close to the desk surface or something?
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: GL1TCH3D on Wed, 20 August 2014, 23:31:51
I had no idea you can get these separately!

One of mine invariably falls off, so I take the other one off (most of my mouses seem to have two small ones either side, then a long curved one at the other end).

I tried taking all 3 off, but the mouse completely stopped working - I guess it was too close to the desk surface or something?

Some mice are more sensitive to others in change of distance of the sensor to the mousepad =(
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: mauri on Thu, 21 August 2014, 14:30:30
"feetsies"
Title: Re: Plastic Feet Underneath the Mouse, What are they Called?
Post by: divito on Fri, 22 August 2014, 16:17:20
I think they are called "mouse skates".

This.

And, many options here (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xmouseskates&_nkw=mouseskates&_sacat=0).

Given my obsession with my IE 3.0, along with having spare mice, I also bought a 40-pack of extra mouse skates for them as well. And as you can see by the link above, there are many for different mice.