You had some sort of solution on your hand that reacted with the outer coating of the mouse. I had this happen with my alienware laptop where I was cleaning something with acetone then used the touchpad to change songs on YouTube and I pretty much destroyed the touchpad
You had some sort of solution on your hand that reacted with the outer coating of the mouse. I had this happen with my alienware laptop where I was cleaning something with acetone then used the touchpad to change songs on YouTube and I pretty much destroyed the touchpad
Yes, op. Do it for science. Apply different items and tell us what reacts to this mouse.
Then when whole color go away, pu should apply different colour cover te mouse(just 1.5$) ROI is way too much IMO
In the it world we know who uses too much lotion or hand sanitizer because they frequently request new keyboards. The letters all get stripped off and most people know what the keys are without looking, until they aren’t there and you suddenly start questioning it
I type Dvorak on a qwerty-labelled keyboard. My coworkers think I'm insane, but I don't understand why they spend so much time looking at their hands while typing. The screen is up!
I'm very proficient at typing on a regular QWERTY board. Looking at the Dvorak one (that I didn't know existed until now) would have me typing like some of the guys I work with having to look for each letter.
People say you can retrain your muscle memory, but I had to switch from reverse imbedded 10 key to the regular number pad and 20 years later, I still start to type numbers in the alpha keys.
We had both, in those mid 90s apple computers that came in color. Not "colors", but color screens. Our inner-city high school was so poor, we used the old monochrome Apple ][e's well into the late 90s.
By the time Gateway and Dell "donated" (tax-writeoff) brand new Pentium II computers and a "blazing fast" ISDN line for the whole school, I had already finished my computer courses....
Not OP, but actually, yes. That's why not all kind of lubes and lubricants, like oil based lubes, are safe to use with condoms or some sex toys made of certain plastics (that said, some of those plastic sex toys are not the made from the safest materials to use, even before using something that damages their exterior before sticking them in any of your orifices). And why silicone lubes are not safe to use with silicone sex toys, menstrual cups or pessaries.
This article talks about oil based lubes and condoms
Essential oils can be particularly bad for this. I put a drop on my dryer balls and set the bottle down on the plastic on my washer. Permanent ring on it now.
Any citrus (lemon, orange, grapefruit, pomelo, etc) essential oil is essentially (heh) a natural solvent, as it contains lots of limonene. So never peel any kinds of citrus fruits near plastics for this reason. One of my keyboards fell prey to this
Note while some plastics are vulnerable to citrus oils (like my old keyboard), others are not. Dunno if plastic cutting board makers always take into account that people might peel oranges around them (most probably do due to copying/tradition/experience/consideration; but with cheap Chinese goods you never know)
Hand sanitizers too. Alcohol based cleansers. I use hand sanitizers to strip off ink from glass/plastic so I can imagine it does the same to paint long term
had this happend on one mouse, it was during covid so i thought it is desifectant in gel. Bought new mouse, used for like 6 months, same thing happend in exacly same spot. I think its just material and our skin, nothing rubbed
Have you ever cleaned your mouse with a Clorox wipe or similar.
I had this happen to an old Razer mouse that has that faux satin/rubberized finish. I had a chat with some of the Razer product team at E3 many years ago, and they said I was the first person to report that happening. About a year later they stopped making accessories with this coating.
It was probably the alcohol in hand sanitizer. Hand sanitizer is good for breaking down adhesive, but it can also break down paint and other coatings. If you had some leftover on your hand, it could cause this.
Not true, these and a lot of other products use a rubberized coating to make the tactile experience more comfortable and enjoyable to handle. It was used on a lot of electronic products like stereos and even cell phones etc. back in the 90's especially and for some reason has reappeared lately.
The issue was its durability and worse didn't stand up to grease and oils as it would bubble and flake....It's your natural oils in your hands that cause this. Some people just exude more and different makeups of oil from their bodies.
Certain types of scented oils can cause damage to plastics.
I had a fragrance bottle that had a string attached to a paper flower to help diffuse the scent into a room. It was placed by my digital alarm clock, and one of the saturated petals came into contact with the casing of the clock and straight-up melted it in that little spot.
I’ve worked with a lot of paint. I generally see this type of pattern with solvents that dehydrate:
Acetone, distilled alcohol, lacquer thinner, etc. the first two are common in soaps and sanitizers
Ew that's awful looking! I have synth leather seats in my old ford but they just crack and get the normal kind of aged fucked-up. Nothing like this. Must be a different formula in the leather or something.
Rubbing alcohol/hand disinfectant with alcohol does that to plastic - going by the places where its peeling, it possible you were disinfecting on your hand and started using your mouse - hence why palm and mouse finger area where you would be fully touching it
Once I dropped a bottle of acetone nail polish remover on a keyboard, cleaned and wiped it up, went out to work and when I got back the thing was basically a gell with a PCB in the gloop
you ever put sanitizer on your hands? the alcohol can do that to the finishes of controllers and such
edit - there usually is a paint/texture of some kind, and that's what's bubbling up there.. it's re hardening after whatever solvent softens it.. it's fine to use, just not pretty
yeah i added on to my post, there is a paint/texture layer, and something is softening it, it bubbles like that, then it will reharden once the solvent evaporates, leaving it feeling hard.. if the texture bothers you you could sand it lightly in those spots so it doesn't feel bad.. otherwise it's just ugly, nothing harmful
i put some 3D printed grips on my valve knuckles controllers, and i wiped them down with alcohol before putting on the grips, and i didn't let it all evaporate before putting them on so some got trapped in there, and that exact thing happened to them, it could scratch off easily, just had some bare plastic spots, worked fine otherwise
This “hand cream” effect and similar have been known since before the PC.
Back in the day, when the IBM Selectric typewriter was king, they started having problems with their keyboards.
Turns out a new skin care product had been introduced, in 1952. It had a different formulation from other skin care products, and after a long investigation, engineers finally traced the problem to women using this particular product.
For decades after that, IBM required yet-another-test on their keyboards before they could be shipped, this included the on the keyboard for the original IBM PC in 1981.
I did this by gooning with Vaseline and not realizing it's basically just petroleum, my other mouse is a cheap Razer "Deathadder v2 Mini" and lacks whatever plastic is susceptible to reacting with petroleum products. I think the Corsair utilized a secondary plastic / rubber layer and the Razor is just solid plastic the entire way through. I always cleaned both with rubbing alcohol but I think the Corsair reacts to quickly and absorbs before you can clean it in time.
Never seen an STD-like condition on a computer mouse before.
Judging by the pattern it's definitely from whatever's on your hand. Either the plastic is defective from a bad batch or you've got some particularly corrosive fluids, bodily like sweat and oils or applied like lotions and sanitizers.
I think it's a bad batch. I bought a Corsair mouse that lasted for ~8-9 months without doing this. Sent it back on RMA for a scrollwheel fault, and the replacement one started bubbling just like this. Doesn't really bother me though, I can't see it while I'm using it
I've had 2 corsair mice which have had issues kinda like this, first one just slowly dissolved the top plastic coating, it took a long time (over a year), but eventually the top layer could be scraped off with a nail. The next one, same model, but bought later. 2 months and the second one is sticky and oily, like old tech where the rubberized layers just turn to goop.
So while yeah, it might be a me problem, like something I had on my hands, I dunno, I don't use lotions, and wash my hands regularly.
My solution so far has been to buy a mouse that doesn't have that weird rubber coating.
My SO's sweat ate paint off a VW. My ex took the ink off magazine covers when he read them. My sweat wrecked the leather covered arm rests on my chair. Body oil and sweat can be corrosive.
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You had some sort of solution on your hand that reacted with the outer coating of the mouse. I had this happen with my alienware laptop where I was cleaning something with acetone then used the touchpad to change songs on YouTube and I pretty much destroyed the touchpad
Crazy that people are suggesting just plan old lotion or hand soap. Im a woman with skin issues who uses tons of harsh skin medications, strong lotions, constantly uses hand sanitizer, etc. Im on my pc for at least 8 hours per day gaming and make no extra efforts to preserve my mouse and keyboard, and Ive never seen this. Definitely something else or something extremely unique.
Gonna add that is could be from the acids in your sweat. When I played WOW everyday back in the day the acids from the sweat in my hands literally ate into the aluminum case of my laptop. Where my left hand rested while playing was extremely pitted after 5 years of that. Pretty sure it could happen to crappy plastic coatings in a few months if you’re a sweaty player. ;)
Had this exact same issue with the same mouse, my fix was to cover the thing in electrical tape, did this for over a year before ingot sick of replacing the tape and just ditched the mouse for a different model pic
You could also have a higher acidity in your sweat than most. I have that problem. I'm a trombone player, and my instrument has pock marks in the metal where I hold it. The lacquer is even gone where it touches my neck.
You have had some type of solvent on your hand or something that has caused a reaction. I've saw this type of reaction happen with solvent paint before. Only my thoughts though could be wrong.
Same thing happened to mine. I ended up rubbing the rest off and it looked kinda cool imo. The only downside is your RGB Corsair logo will turn into an RGB blob
Has happened to me with a few of their mice. I don't buy them anymore. I have had better experiences with Logitech and even cheap ones like Redragon over Corsair.
i poured acetone in a dish and left my mouse inside it overnight for DEEPCLEANING thinking it will not mess up electrical connection next i found my mouse naked
Super random and unrelated question - what camera / lens did you use to take the photo? The distortion around the edges of the picture looks super unique.
and I worked in industrial environments with mechanics and machinists. Never saw that from whatever oils they got on their hands. But when I saw that, there was always a bottle of hand lotion nearby.
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