Uniserver's most important warning is about not using the wrong solvents - eg windex. Alcholol and water are safe, I wouldn't risk anything else.
Myself, I always use dry tecniques to clean the innards of a mouse. The ball itself can do with a wash if the surface has become so slick it is skidding - but that's pretty rare.
In most cases, what leads to gunk buildup is the tiny fibres that are picked up by the ball, often by a static charge. They transfer to the rollers, then wind around the axels, gluing themselves together with any oily residue. I generally pick it off the axels with a pin, and scrape it gently off the rollers with a blade. Then a final wipe with alcolhol on an applicator like a plastic stick that won't leave new fibres behind - ie don't use cotton buds or towel paper for that. About the only other point of failure is if something is blocking the action of the contact switches, like an actuator that has gone off-kilter due to gunk buildup somewhere.
When I say "fibres", I'm not ruling out pastry flakes and other human detritus 8-o
Rick
Myself, I always use dry tecniques to clean the innards of a mouse. The ball itself can do with a wash if the surface has become so slick it is skidding - but that's pretty rare.
In most cases, what leads to gunk buildup is the tiny fibres that are picked up by the ball, often by a static charge. They transfer to the rollers, then wind around the axels, gluing themselves together with any oily residue. I generally pick it off the axels with a pin, and scrape it gently off the rollers with a blade. Then a final wipe with alcolhol on an applicator like a plastic stick that won't leave new fibres behind - ie don't use cotton buds or towel paper for that. About the only other point of failure is if something is blocking the action of the contact switches, like an actuator that has gone off-kilter due to gunk buildup somewhere.
When I say "fibres", I'm not ruling out pastry flakes and other human detritus 8-o
Rick