22.06.2025 The Cockroach in the Blender

I was given Wife's Seventh's (or was it sixth or eight?) blender about 2 weeks ago to um, remove some dead cockroaches hiding in side there. Hoo. Ray.

As I was rushing to complete Border Models's Tesla Trooper in time for the Malcom 2025, I could not do the task. Knowing that this is a 'must', I cannot delay this unless I wish to experience the Matriarchal Hand of Doom.

Anyway, what I thought was a two hour job was done in just 15 minutes... yay, me. Almost wanted to spray the thing with Ridsect but my experience as an ex-engineer cum husband tells me that is really pushing my luck.

With the screwdriver and a can of Ridsect, I am, being as reasonably sane as it is, ready. Since the newspapers I requested was not forthcoming, I had to use mine, which was mostly covered in airbrush paints and wooden stirrers with paints stuck to it.

The Blender thing was surprisingly easy to disassemble since it was only held with... 2 screws. I have no explanation for why there is a 2.5 inch by 1 inch hole (red) apart from it being an open invitation to these buggers. It is not for ventilation as there are other smaller holes.

 

In the end, there are about 6 of them ( found the other half of its abdomen), all truly not alive and I'm sure, crunchy as heck.

 

I ma not sure as to how they met their demise since the motor looks kinda clean while the bodies are intact. I have a very silly theory that they could be electrocuted but then again, it is very highly unlikely.

 

18.06.2025 Repairing the Gaslighting Mouse

 I got this mouse sometime in the first week of April. This wireless Goojodoq M09 can connect via Bluetooth or 2.4GHz and uses a rechargeable LiPo battery. But more importantly, apart from the nice (not wonderful yet) rubbery ergonomics, it has the two side buttons which turns the Webpages forwards and back. I had not been using this feature since the early 2010's and right now, the two buttons worked well at Work. However, roughly 9 weeks later, the left button is starting to misbehave.

 It's gaslighting me because I know I've pressed the left button but the screen did not do any "You have clicked from you mouse, alrighty Sir, let me see what I can do for you" response. Only when I tried it a second time, it was very obedient. However, a week later, it came back more mischievous than before. And so, I have to rectify this as fast as I can before I let it make a dent in the wall at sub Mark 3.

Compared to Logitech's designs, this mouse needs two screws. I am prepared to sacrifice the Teflon pads since I have some nice round ones. And luckily, I have the same mouse button but in Yellow. If these are (original?) Kailh buttons, the yellow ones would give an average 20 million clicks before it fails. The red ones were rated at half of that.

Despite this mouse using a rechargeable LiPo, I feel that the weight is more or less the same at that of a Logitech M220 using a single AA battery.

Here is the 400mAh 602040 LiPo which means it is 6mm tall, 20mm wide and 40mm long

The most common mouse buttons nowadays were of these silent 6x6x7.3 designs. There is another but lower at 6x6x3.5. In the olden days, the normal 5x5x push buttons was OK but hard to press, which eventually gave out to those softer micro switched before leading to what we have now.

This is basically a switch, designed silent or for soft pressing to prevent getting a 6-pack on your fingers. A normal 5x5 button would be too 'tough' since the finger is pressing downwards far away from the hand. They are OK if pressed downward directly. Anyway, this is a simple job of de-soldering the two solder joints.

All done

Yes, it is the left mouse button that failed,  now it is alright