{"id":2440,"date":"2017-05-25T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2017-05-25T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T17:17:21","slug":"big-roll-of-mouse-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=2440","title":{"rendered":"That’s a lot of mouse feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I wore out yet another set of mouse feet. Scrape scrape. Didn’t immediately find a set of matching feet for my mouse, and then I thought, “wait, surely there’s a general solution to this.”<\/p>\n

The solution? 36 yards of PTFE tape<\/a>. That’s PTFE, also known as\u00a0“stop saying Teflon, or we’ll sue you.” In this case, 0.010 x 3\/4″ teflon tape with a silicone adhesive backing.<\/p>\n

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Solved<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s .010″ thick, which is thicker than the PTFE tape usually sold in shorter length for mice, so should last longer.<\/p>\n

You have to do some searching though. This roll of 3\/4″ tape was $12, but I got the last roll in stock, and now it costs $110. You have to check to see what widths are available in stock.<\/p>\n

What can you do with 36 yards of PTFE? Well, aside from great high temperature electrical insulation, it’s also great for old school drawers that don’t have rollers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I wore out yet another set of mouse feet. Scrape scrape. Didn’t immediately find a set of matching feet for my mouse, and then I thought, “wait, surely there’s a general solution to this.” The solution? 36 yards of PTFE tape. That’s PTFE, also known as\u00a0“stop saying Teflon, or we’ll sue you.” In this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}