I ran into another disaster in information technology. This time I had purchased a Blackweb wireless mouse from a local Walmart store. I paid $11.94 not including tax for this wireless mouse.
However, I dropped it one time from a table at a motel I was staying at. The floor was a hardwood floor. Well this mouse quit working after that one drop to the floor.
I then proceeded to take this mouse apart to try to fix it. What happaned was that a small piece of plastic broke off from the mouse wheel. There are two small pieces of plastic on both sides of the scroll mouse wheel, that interact with the functioning of this mouse.
This fatal drop caused the demise of this Blackweb wireless mouse. Mice and keyboards to me should be able to sustain drops. I am not talking about throwing and or slamming a mouse or keyboard.
I am talking about simple innocent accidental drops of mice and or keyboards. I tried fixing this missing plastic piece with electrical tape to no avail. I only spent $11.94 for this wireless mouse so it was not worth my time and or effort to salvage this Blackweb wireless mouse.
This mouse is compatible with the following operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows seven
- Microsoft Windows eight
- Microsoft Windows ten
- Apple Macintosh operating system version 10.5 Leopard and Newer
I was able to use this mouse with MX Linux 18.3, which is a Debian distribution derivation, even though the product guide does not mention Linux.
This mouse comes with the following buttons:
- Left Button
- Right Button
- Scrool Wheel
- Forward Button
- Backward Button
- DPI Switch
- Connect Button
- On and Off Switch
This Blackweb wireless mouse also comes with a universal serial bus nano antenna receiver. This wireless mouse also came with a single double AA battery. A silver Energizer brand double AA battery was included.
I thought this was a nice touch. I hate those batteries not included products. This wireless mouse has five different dots per inch settings that I did not fiddle with.
Setting up and using this mouse on Linux no less was easy. You just take the back battery cover off and then install the included AA battery. Then you connect the universal serial bus antenna receiver to your computer.
Now you turn the wireless mouse on with the on off switch. Voila, I was controlling my Linux computer with this mouse. It just sucks that one drop was fatal.
This mouse connected automatically to the universal serial bus antenna receiver, so I did not need to use the connect button.
Blackweb Wireless DPI Mouse – Review Video Transcript
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this is my review video pertaining to
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this mouse that I purchased at Walmart
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that I promised I was going to make it
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is black web is the brand this is the
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original packaging and still includes
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the mouse the Wi-Fi USB and Tanna is
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gone because I you know got rid of it
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but it didn’t it did include it quickly
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we’ll just go over the packaging it
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turned into a total disaster I’ll just
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fucking tell you right now I dropped
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this mouse one time on either probably
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real hardwood floor or synthetic at a
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motel
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and it quit working and I will show you
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bite quit working because it fucking
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broke it was a it was probably a table
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table height it wasn’t it’s not like
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they you know no it was either I think
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it was on a table and it fell off and it
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never worked after that all right so
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it’s a black web 6 button wireless
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fabric covered Mouse with five dpi
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levels what else
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contoured for comfort with the soft
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sleek cover it’s USB Universal serious
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bus is plug and play
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oh it comes with the the receiver which
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is the antenna and that is stored inside
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the mouse when it’s not in use but when
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you first get it it comes right there
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it’s right there if you when you buy it
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new 30-foot range wireless RF it uses it
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doesn’t use bluetooth it uses the old
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school RF five dpi levels it is
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compatible with personal computers and
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Mac and crap wind blows and also Linux I
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actually use this on Linux and it worked
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well it worked just fine for a while
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it requires batteries one double-a
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battery and it was included battery you
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know that bullshit the cheap
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capitalistic whores batteries not
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included
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Wow but this one actually came with a
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battery I still have it I think where I
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I still have it it’s a silver battery
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it’s a double e if I I’m a limb trying
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to think where it it’s in it’s in that
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tub
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I think anyways so I’m going to I’m
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going to show you the package with the
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mouse real quick
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okay so now I’m gonna take it out of its
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packaging again I saved it to make this
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video because this would turn into a
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fucking utter disaster
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I paid eleven I have the receipt
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somewhere I paid like 11:30 for $11.34
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for it or something like that at Walmart
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and including not including taxes and I
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dropped it once and it quit working and
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I was like you gotta be fucking kidding
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me no I didn’t throw it I didn’t you
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know slam it down or I didn’t throw it
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it fell off like the table that I was
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using alright so let’s open up this
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Janka tea packaging it’s a I mean it
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looked like a decent Mouse
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and here here’s the mouse itself and the
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packaging and all that that comes with
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it it comes with a small little product
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guy but there’s really not much to it
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you know where I’m sits a mouse so what
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it doesn’t even tell you if you drop it
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it will not work yeah it actually does
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it has description Windows 7 Windows 8
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Windows 10 Mac OS 10.5 or later and it
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works on Linux I’m using MX Linux
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night at the time it was eighteen point
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three left button right button scroll
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wheel forward backward dpi switch key
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nano receiver which is the wireless
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receiver USB battery cover connect
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button off on switch okay
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forward-backward DPS which I didn’t fuck
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with the DPS which it has a little
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compartment where the battery and then
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also the antenna fit the USB antenna all
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right
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wireless mouse down a receiver one
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double a battery user’s manual yeah all
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right so I didn’t even read the little
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guide but yeah so it has this little
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plastic door you just stick your your
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fingernail in or whatever and just pull
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out and there it comes off so it’s just
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like that alright now I mean I can yeah
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when I first started using I was like I
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don’t know the scroll wheel is a bit
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it’s really not it kind of moves you can
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feel it move which is okay but when you
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take it apart a pretty cheap plastic and
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then it has a dpi button but I never
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fuck with it and then it’s got it’s got
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left and right buttons when you press
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down it has two side buttons I never I
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never use those but whatever and then
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the battery fits in there and then it’s
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got the compartment for the antenna the
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USB nano receiver
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all right and then
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okay the lighting in here isn’t the best
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for these kind of demonstrations but I
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don’t fucking care now I took it apart
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there were I’m trying to think there was
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at least one screw – there were two
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small screws there’s little little
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plastic that has blue on it to hide the
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screw holes and then was there another
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one you know behind here yeah there were
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four so that there’s this plastic piece
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with glue on it to hide the screws I
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just I’ve worked on you know computed
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you know computers for decades now so
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it’s like most mice are are held with
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screws and a lot of times they’re hidden
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behind little pieces of plastic or
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rubber that have glue so I took it apart
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and then it just lifts off and then I’m
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gonna show you I should be able to show
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let me describe it first oh you know
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what so here’s the scroll wheel it’s
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painted with that false to make it look
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like it’s shiny and all that but I’ve
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noticed that plastic that’s painted like
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that a lot of times it’s not very good
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it’s not very strong so here’s the wheel
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and then I will the one it’s got two
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little pieces of plastic on each side
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that sits down and that they fit into
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this other
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then they kind of fit in and then as the
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the scroll mouse wheel moves its you
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know connected to the left and the right
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mice and then also the scroll well it
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broke off one side broke off and I’ll
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show it to you
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so did you should have noticed the green
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the little green has painted green now
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that this I didn’t break off the other
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one did so this little piece of plastic
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I think yeah it broke off and you even
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though I dropped the mouse about I don’t
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know five feet off the floor
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I dropped it once and it quit working it
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is because this other side of the wheel
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the little tab broke off and then it
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fucked nothing you know
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well it’s war it’s it’s useless because
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it’s this on the scroll wheel I was like
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man so sometimes you do get what you pay
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for but the rest of the mouse is is if
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you yeah if you have an old mouse you
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might want to take them apart just a
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reverse engineer and see how they work
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so this is what it looks like without
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the cover and it’s got a circuit board
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and it’s got a power cable it’s got two
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small boards actually
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alright well that is my review of this
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mouse because it doesn’t work man I
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tried to fix it I tried to like tape you
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know try it too I I had the little piece
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that broke off
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I lost it somewhere it actually kind of
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yeah completely broke off I had it in
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the packaging and I lost it or I might
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have thrown it away I might have
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forgotten about it I wanted to show you
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you know that it did break off on the
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one side of the wheel and I tried to fix
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it I tried to tape it back to hold it it
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wouldn’t it wouldn’t spin right you
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might be able to glue it probably yeah
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if you had some superglue but the mouse
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is only $11 so I was like you know what
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by the time I fucking you know I don’t
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have superglue but to spend the time
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trying if that he would even work you
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could proud you might if you’re good
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with electronics and plastics you might
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be able to heat it up and then you know
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like on a circuit board you can you do
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know that you can fix your own circuit
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boards your mother goes out motherboard
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goes out it could be because of anyways
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I don’t want to digress too much but if
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you know how to solder you could soldier
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in you might be able to you know heat it
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up and get some plastic or something
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some light he so heat it up and then
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stick it on there or a superglue and
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hold it hold it right or let leave it
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let it dry I don’t know if if I draw if
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all’s I did here I’ll demonstrate I
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don’t want to scratch now this is
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synthetic flooring here is similar to
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what the other floor that I think that
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was real a hardwood floor this is I
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think synthetic I don’t think this mouse
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is gonna scratch up this hotel room so
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what I’m going to do is
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I can even what I can do is I don’t want
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to scratch up the floor is I’m going to
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put this little cover back on come on
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bitch
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there it goes and we will put the
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cardboard down on the floor and this is
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about the yeah this is about how high it
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was well it broke oh well fuck Chet if
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if if it can’t if the mouse wheel can’t
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survive that drop then how the fuck are
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you gonna fix it I’m just not I’m not
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you know alright so there is my review
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video of the black web that I found I
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purchased this at Walmart the black web
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mouse that it looked kind of nice my
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next video I think I don’t know I don’t
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lie intentionally I bought another Mouse
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or wireless mouse the onn brand from the
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same Walmart for Less $8 $9 and that one
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works just great
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now I don’t intentionally try it drop
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mice I don’t throw you don’t want to
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throw no you never want to throw around
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you know mice and keyboard but to me a
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keyboard and a mouse it should survive a
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drop a slam or throw no but a drop this
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should survive that oh my god I’m not –
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it’s only $11 I don’t know if I could
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even get a warranty
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you know return it with the warranty
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because they’d be yeah well goddamn it
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Aaron you fucking brought it we’re not
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we’re not gonna return your money
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goddamn it Aaron
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well well Jesus Christ our and ideals I
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think my next video will be about the
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other wireless mouse that works just
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great and I’ll actually like it I don’t
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like Wireless mice adios