Any tricks to speed up mouse feet?

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My mamba was dragging ass and ended up being a faulty piece of junk so I got the G700 which is awesome, and it was really smooth on my pad for about a month (the g700 is only about a month old now) and now it's somewhat slow again. There's still meat on the feet so is there anything I can do to speed it up - besides buying new feet? My pad is fine and not worn it's a steelseries 9HD and both surfaces are clean
 
Mouse feet aren't like brake pads. Just because there's still "meat" on them, doesn't mean they're going to be as smooth as they first were. They will have accumulated many abrasions from use. If cleaning them doesn't help, you'll probably have to get new ones or get used to it.
 
That's a shame, all I do is play Minecraft these days, nothing serious. Buying new feet once a month will suck.
 
eNforcer said:
That's a shame, all I do is play Minecraft these days, nothing serious. Buying new feet once a month will suck.
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It really not something you can get over? I wear my feet down to nothing before I consider replacing them.
 
TheGamerZ said:
It really not something you can get over? I wear my feet down to nothing before I consider replacing them.
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I can get over it, but I keep thinking back to when they were new and how I much preferred the super smoothness to what it is now.

I've ordered a couple sets of corepad skatez, we'll see how long they last
 
I have never worn mouse feet down, especially a logitech.... They have some of the largest surface area of any I have seen. Then again I have been using a C4Ngen mouse pad for about 7 years and neither the pad nor any feet have worn.
 
I requested a sample roll of Teflon tape from a manufacturer 12 years ago and I've been slapping it on my mice ever since... I think I'll be dead before I finish this thing
 
Surface area isn't the only contributor to having a smooth mouse. By FAR the smoothest feeling mouse I own is my Razer Naga, and this is due to the shape of mouse foot it uses. The foot is horseshoe-shaped, running along the perimeter of the mouse.

http://hordereview.com/wp-content/gallery/razer-naga/razer-naga-bottom_0.jpg

The lack of sharp edges combined with the load-distributing shape, is what makes this mouse feel so smooth. Your g700 has segments of pad instead of a continuous pad...this doesn't distribute the load nearly as well, and the sharp edges increase friction substantially.


I personally don't like my mice feeling slippery, but you seem to want that feeling, so give the Naga a try. The Epic, and newly released Hex, both use a mouse foot design more like your G700, so stick to the regular Naga.
 
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i love slick and smooth mice! Ratpadz + Pledge and my mouse will glide off the entire surface w/ a little nudge
 
I've had an MX518 for years. I love the 'feet' - large, smooth surfaces underneath.
 
I have never worn mouse feet out on any mouse I've owned. What I would do is look into getting a cloth mouse pad. Or if you already have one, one with a slicker surface.
 
i2abid said:
i love slick and smooth mice! Ratpadz + Pledge and my mouse will glide off the entire surface w/ a little nudge
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This right here. I run my mouse directly on my desk surface because the RAT I have had some accuracy problems on the pad I have. I dust my desk with Pledge every week or so and it keeps the mouse gliding like a dream.
 
I also have never worn down the feet on a mouse to the point of increased friction.

I would suspect perhaps it's just your chosen mouse pad, maybe try something different for a while? See if it causes less mouse footpad erosion.
 
Lengradde said:
Surface area isn't the only contributor to having a smooth mouse. By FAR the smoothest feeling mouse I own is my Razer Naga, and this is due to the shape of mouse foot it uses. The foot is horseshoe-shaped, running along the perimeter of the mouse.

http://hordereview.com/wp-content/gallery/razer-naga/razer-naga-bottom_0.jpg

The lack of sharp edges combined with the load-distributing shape, is what makes this mouse feel so smooth. Your g700 has segments of pad instead of a continuous pad...this doesn't distribute the load nearly as well, and the sharp edges increase friction substantially.


I personally don't like my mice feeling slippery, but you seem to want that feeling, so give the Naga a try. The Epic, and newly released Hex, both use a mouse foot design more like your G700, so stick to the regular Naga.
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I doubt the shape of the pads make that much of a difference. If you look at them, they are actually beveled. One could also say that having more surface area slows down the mouse even more.

What surface is the OP using that wears down mice so fast? Sand paper?
 
i just ordered some corepad skatez for my deathadder.... anxious to see how big of an improvement it is. loved my ratpadz XT but it seems to do a pretty good job of chewing at mouse feet. went back to a non-textured surface. i always use pledge or a simliar product as well.
 
if u use a soft pad youll probly never wear the feet out and youll be far less likely to scratch up the feet. i prefer the feelto a hard pad but it eats mousefeet like crazy. even when you're anal about keeping the mouse and the pad clean at all times there is always stuff that gets on the pad and ends up scratching up the feet. dunno why they cant make feet that arent so soft.....
 
Good free way to speed your mouse is to REMOVE mouse feets.On my mouse they calles dirt around them and make the mouse slower to move
also i am using a mouse on a smooth desk surface(no mouse pad)
with removed mouse feets you just clean the bottom of the mouse once in the while and the desk surfuce

for me it works great,it is very easy to move the mouse,
 
eNforcer said:
That's a shame, all I do is play Minecraft these days, nothing serious. Buying new feet once a month will suck.
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do you press hard on your mouse, lighten up? i got a G500 going on...4 months now and still smooth as the day i bought it
 
figured i would pass on my impressions in case it may help someone else....

corepadz for the death adder do not seem up to par with the razer product. figured i'd save a few bucks by going with these and it wouldn't matter. so far they are slightly less raised. they also seem of a less durable material and not as slick. i do tend to put some pressure on my mice. my XT would chew threw these in a month easy.
 
Alright, since my last post I have received my corepad mouse feet. They were slick for about 2 days and developed just a few normal scratch wear and the mouse has once again become sluggish (sluggish to me may seem like normal to others). There's a lot of meat left on the feet, and less wear than the old original feet.

The issue is the plastic pads. The texture on the pads start to develop flatspots and make more contact on the feet, thus causing more friction. You can't tell by looking at the pad but that is my theory and the only thing that makes sense. If I take my mouse up to a corner of the pad that I never use, it's noticeably more slick.

During the time of using the mouse with the corepad feet I cleaned the pad and feet daily to make sure there wasn't anything else interfering.

I grabbed my old razer destructor pad and it was even worse than me 9HD pad.

To answer a question posted:
I do not put pressure on my mouse, my wrist sits on the pad and fingers almost hover.

Side note, the corepad feet seem to be a bit more soft than the stock Logitech feet and because of this, I keep picking up tiny specs of dirt or other things somehow falling onto the pad and it feels like I'm dragging the mouse around with a grain of sand underneath ANNOYING. I am now constantly wiping down my pad and mouse feet.

Now the issue is, which new plastic pad do I try next? Review are pointless, they are all made when the pad is brand new which leaves a good impression. I can't find any reviews that come back to the product after a couple of months, or even ONE month.
 
Cheese, that'll get your mouse going.

Srsly, I always use thick rubber/cloth pads, they dont ruin the mouse feet.
 
MindBuster said:
Cheese, that'll get your mouse going.

Srsly, I always use thick rubber/cloth pads, they dont ruin the mouse feet.
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I had the steelseries qck for over a year, it gets really hard to clean and by cleaning it the fibres start to stand up making the mouse slow. Even brand new it was never as speedy as any plastic pad. Only benefits are the cost and no wear to mouse feet.
 
Yes I'm looking for a solution myself as well. I have the G500 and a func1030 mousepad. I like to have the sensitivity maxed, but that also creates more noticeable problems with friction. Trying to move the mouse just a little bit and it will stick a little before moving, so you end up moving more than you wanted to. It's not much, but on high sensitivity it can be very noticeable. I also don't use any weights in the mouse, but maybe my hand is heavy on the mouse.

I was looking at this stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/Func-Industri...83IY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1332926377&sr=8-2

Not sure if it works good or not. Nobody mentioned teflon tape at all, although I'm skeptical that it is really a good solution.
 
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The "Liquid" stuff looks interesting. I used a Steelseries SX for quite a while, and a part of using that mouse pad was frequently (once a week) oiling the surface with a silicon based lubricant. That + teflon mouse feet certainly helped the glide ;)
 
Call a company that makes mouse pads and ask for some samples. They usually send 4 or 5 with different surfaces. I'm using an old school fabric on rubber base that works wonderfully for me. My mouse is a woefully old Microsoft Intellimouse. Prolly 10 years on it, and it still has the original skates.
 
Lube it with Pledge.

I'm using a mouse directly on a table. No mousepad needed. And it smells nice.
 
Buy new mouse feet! I avoided the expensive mainstream gaming ones. I just bought some supposed to be 3M material mousefeet from dealextreme.com and they are freaking awesome in terms of gliding.

Also remember your mouse feet are only as good as your mouse pad. Find two complimentary materials.
 
there are these cheap felt/adhesive pads you can buy at dollar stores. the felt and the sticky-application-pads are separate.

these foam pads have a covering. this covering is like a miniature cardboard disk coated with wax paper. you can apply these disks to your mouse. they only seem to last smoothly for a month with heavy usage, they are very cheap 16 sets for a dollar. and provide a brand new mouse feel.

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or double sided tape with its protective wax coating.
 
a cheap trick is to burnish the feet on your mouse. first find a smooth painted metal surface, like your refrigerator, stove or washer dryer, MUST be smooth, not textured. make sure surface is relatively flat, first press lightly in a circular motion, pretending the painted surface is your mouse pad, then increase pressure, the object is to burnish the surface of the feet.
 
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If you want very slippery mouse feet try corepad mouse feet. I am using simple dots for my X8 (I know the shape doesn't match, but I glued them anyway to the mouse, and works flawlessly).
The mouse feet from corepads are much much more slippery then the stock feet, which makes it the best experience ever for me. This way you can use draggy mousepads without stucking the mouse into the pad every time you try a fine movement, not to mention that they last for quite a while already.
 
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