Transplant Optical Mouse guts hack?

[Jakobud]

I figure this is a good place to ask this type of question...

Has anyone ever tried to transfer the guts/insides of a mouse from one mouse to another?  Like lets say you have one optical mouse and you want to transfer the guts of it into the shell of a different mouse that is not optical, thus making it optical.  Make sense?

Anyone ever tried to do something wierd like this?

[NoBonus]

I have never heard of doing this, but it seems like it could be done.  The trick would be keeping the base of the optical mouse thus you might need to cut out the base of the other mouse.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

You must have one really special mouse shell...otherwise this sounds like a pain in the a#@.

[Jakobud]

Yes I do... i mean its not special its just that you can't hardly get them anymore anywhere... Its the original Logitech Mouseman (manuf # S-38).  3-buttons.  No scroll wheel.   By far the BEST mouse I have ever felt in my life.  It uses a ball and its PS/2 connection.  Its a very difficult mouse to find and no one else makes anything that comes close to it anymore in terms of 'feel' for me.  The big huge laggy optical mice of today just don't cut it for me...

The closest alternative is the Logitech Wingman Gaming Mouse that Logitech released several years ago (in 1999 or 2000).  It was the same exact shell as the S-38 but it was also USB!  Anyways, this mouse is even more difficult to find now than the S-38.

Anyways, I have several S-38's sitting around ready to be used by me someday when my others go bad so I was wondering how hard it would be to buy a normal optical mouse and hack its guts into the S-38 shell....

Sounds like pain in the butt? Yeah it is... but I love this mouse
 
Here is a pic of what the shape is:

http://store1.yimg.com/I/toolspcs_1804_5905468

[Jakobud]

WOW.... I CANNOT believe that I actually found some other people on earth who have the same taste in mice as me AND whom have done the exact thing I was looking to do... amazing..

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=725004

I'm sure no one here really cares, but I thought I'd post this anyways, since the original and discontinued Logitech Mouseman 3 button mouse is the most comfortable mouse in existence.