Macintosh M0100 Mouse Foot Restoration Covers — Pack of 6

Most of the M0100 mice in circulation today have their front feet rounded and worn out — sometimes nearly completely flat. It is so common that even the M0100 3D printed cases has reproduced round, short feet instead of the conical and flat original feet.

It makes the mouse wobble back and forth just enough to be weird and feels wrong. That's because it was not the way people used them at the time, when they were new!

Bring a steadier feel back to your original Macintosh mouse.

These small covers cup the existing worn feet, helping restore support, reduce front-to-back rocking, and improve glide without removing the original feet.

Fit using a small amount of PVA glue (ie. wood glue). It's fully reversible using just a bit of hot water, that's the attachment method used on my own M0100 mice.

Includes six foot covers. Mouse and glue are not included!

How were the restoration covers designed?

For a full year I was blocked: I couldn't find the real size of the feet. As mentioned, even the dimensionnaly exact 3D models of the M0100 were reproducing round, short feet, not the original feet. After a year, I managed to buy a brand new M0100 mouse, and was then able to measure the real feet: they are slightly conical and have a perfectly flat top!

After several design and printing iterations, I now have a small supply of (very small) neatly printed restoration covers.

Printing them is quite tricky, because they are so small. I had to find the right combination of bed, nozzle, speed. This is the smallest functional object I have printed! I'd dare say that it is probably one of the smallest really functional objects ever printed with a filament printer 😅

They are printed in RAL7032 color filament, a color that match well with retro devices from the 80s.