How often do you replace your mousefeet? I hate the process of replacing mousefeet and the increased wear is what is stopping me from fully committing to my glass pad. I do love the idea of getting a teflon sheet as I hate the markup on aftermarket feet but I am not sure how I would cut smooth curves. On my mouse the feet are in an indented part of the plastic. (edit: I also just found ptfe "dot" mousefeet available online that are much more universal and not mouse specific. Any opinions about those kind of mousefeet?)
It's hard to really quantify that, but you seen the sheet I have here in this video. I've been using it for about half a decade or so and I still have PLENTY of it left. The one thing I could say about the shaped thing is that you could just do what *I* do and just make square or rectangles ones. Instead of sticking them in the original positions, I also often put them a bit further out so they're as close to the edges as possible, sometimes even just sticking out a tiny bit. By getting them as close to the edges, the mouse feels a *lot* more stable. If you do need to cut the shaped stuff though, you could just trace the originals onto the new teflon sheet and cut them out with scissors. PTFE (Teflon) is *really* soft stuff, much softer than most plastics. Really, with how cheap a sheet of teflon is, you could just get some and play around. This is actually how *I* tend to discover helpful stuff myself. You could also just cut out small squares out of the PTFE sheet and use them like the "dot" feet and put a couple at the outer edges where the original feet went. You could also put the new feet close to the original feet, but further out if you can (towards the edge if there's room). Personally, for how long a sheet lasts and how cheap it is to just play around, I'd just get some and give it a go. In my case, that 12" by 12" sheet will probably last me the rest of my life even fiddling around endlessly like I do. I've refooted probably a dozen different mice already and in some cases, dozens of times for some of them. Also, how's the friction on that glass pad? Does it seem low like the plastic surfaced hardpads?
@@GamingHelp Well you have certainly gotten me interested in trying my hard pads again! I will definitely look into getting a PTFE sheet! My experience with hard pads is a Glorious Helios (plastic pad, and now called the Glorious Air I believe) and Razer Atlas (Glass pad). I am not sure how the Helios compares to the Logitech plastic pad so take that in consideration. I cannot use my Helios side by side at the moment but it is definitely faster than the glass pad. The Helios felt almost uncontrollable to me. The glass pad is still very fast but has just enough control for me to be precise. I think you could definitely speed up the glass pad with polish if its too slow although I have not tried. As for overall quality the glass pad absolutely dominates the plastic one in every way. I like my glass pad much more and since you already like hard pads I think you will love it! I am very interested to see how your "sheet of textured glass" experiment from the other comment goes!
Mate just want to thank you for taking the time to make this video! Great content and appreciate you sharing your knowledge from seemingly years worth of experimenting. I’m for sure going to give it a go and have purchased a hard pad 😊
Thanks man, I super appreciate it. These video's take me forever so it's nice to hear people find them helpful. If you like a lower friction and/or consistent friction, for sure you should try one! Right now, I'm strongly considering a glass pad. Not because the plastic ones are bad or anything, but mostly because I live far away from civilization and stuff's hard to get here so I can't just go get another one (can't even order it by mail). I'm hoping between my giant sheet of teflon for mouse feet and a glass pad, I can go half a decade or more without replacing anything! :) Best of luck!
Heyyyy, good video, it has resolved one of the questions that I had had regarding hardpads. The only thing that continues to frustrate me is the fact that my fingers and wrist are too sticky and that makes my aim inconsistent. I was wondering if the hard pad treatment can help in that regard maybe (Or it could be a skill issue?) Also, sorry if I sound a bit bot, my english is not the best xd
Your English is just fine. :) I wonder if perhaps a hand fan might help. One issue I had is that just due to age and health (I'm 50+ and housebound, I love it, but it beats me to death. Lol!), even with dry air, even with A/C, I sweat like a feature so I set up two different fans to keep myself dry/cool. One for the rest of me, but one that blows down partly on the pad, partly towards my arm/fingers/hand where it touches the pad. Without it, I get about 10 minutes before I'm sticky, with it, if my health would let me, I could go 16 hours solid and still be totally dry. Plus, it feels far more consistent over time as well and consistent helps land those wild shots we all crave. :) I just used a small plug in walwart power supply of about 6 to 9 volts and wired it up to a cheap PC case fan and then hot melt glued it to a little mount I made. Anything that holds it in place would work. Definitely worth trying. A case fan is like 10 bucks. Just make sure you get the wiring correct the first time. Red to red, aka, red to positive. Getting them backwards will kill lots of fans first time within a fraction of a second. But they're cheap too. You could buy three of them for like 20 bucks and just do it at random, throw one out if you get it wrong and do the next one the other way round and still have a spare if it wears out. :)
@@GamingHelp Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate your time. I'll keep experimenting and see how it ends xd, the idea of the fans can work, I have a small one in some place, thanks!
excellent video, some crisp snipes from you there, if i ever get practicing with mnk, i will return to this video to set up that juicy slick speedy config
Tee hee! I think you're talking about YOUR snipes! Man oh man some of those are fast. I should have spent some more time sifting though. I know I've seen some that you've posted that were basically one frame of animation. Thanks again for letting me use some of your content in this! :)
That would depend on your kind of pad. I've recently tested a few other things, one of which is beeswax. Like, the real deal from a beekeeper. If you have a hard pad though, you can pretty much just try stuff and wash it off with soap/water and a small scrub brush (Plastic bristles only for obvious reasons). I suspect any decent furniture polish will work, but the one thing I've noticed regardless of what I've used is that in many cases, less is more. By that, I mean apply it sparingly. You could just try whatever you have on hand. I'd try and apply whatever you're trying on a very tiny spot that won't bug you if it gets buggered up though. Some plastics and various solvents don't get along well and may melt the surface so try a tiny bit on the very edge or something.
This is a good question! If I had to guess, I would think it would be outstanding as well, but I haven't ever tried one so I don't really know. I WOULD like to try one though. I bought a sheet of textured glass to try as a pad, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I suspect the glass pads would last longer than the plastic topped ones though! That's the biggest reason I'm considering trying one myself. The plastic ones are ridiculously good performance and that dressing pad thing I showed here makes it so that it only takes seconds to modify the friction in any way you want and in any place you want, but they do still wear over time, even if it takes half a decade. :) If you ever get a chance to use one, I'd love to hear how you like it though!
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How often do you replace your mousefeet? I hate the process of replacing mousefeet and the increased wear is what is stopping me from fully committing to my glass pad. I do love the idea of getting a teflon sheet as I hate the markup on aftermarket feet but I am not sure how I would cut smooth curves. On my mouse the feet are in an indented part of the plastic. (edit: I also just found ptfe "dot" mousefeet available online that are much more universal and not mouse specific. Any opinions about those kind of mousefeet?)
It's hard to really quantify that, but you seen the sheet I have here in this video. I've been using it for about half a decade or so and I still have PLENTY of it left. The one thing I could say about the shaped thing is that you could just do what *I* do and just make square or rectangles ones. Instead of sticking them in the original positions, I also often put them a bit further out so they're as close to the edges as possible, sometimes even just sticking out a tiny bit. By getting them as close to the edges, the mouse feels a *lot* more stable. If you do need to cut the shaped stuff though, you could just trace the originals onto the new teflon sheet and cut them out with scissors. PTFE (Teflon) is *really* soft stuff, much softer than most plastics. Really, with how cheap a sheet of teflon is, you could just get some and play around. This is actually how *I* tend to discover helpful stuff myself. You could also just cut out small squares out of the PTFE sheet and use them like the "dot" feet and put a couple at the outer edges where the original feet went. You could also put the new feet close to the original feet, but further out if you can (towards the edge if there's room). Personally, for how long a sheet lasts and how cheap it is to just play around, I'd just get some and give it a go. In my case, that 12" by 12" sheet will probably last me the rest of my life even fiddling around endlessly like I do. I've refooted probably a dozen different mice already and in some cases, dozens of times for some of them. Also, how's the friction on that glass pad? Does it seem low like the plastic surfaced hardpads?
@@GamingHelp Well you have certainly gotten me interested in trying my hard pads again! I will definitely look into getting a PTFE sheet!
My experience with hard pads is a Glorious Helios (plastic pad, and now called the Glorious Air I believe) and Razer Atlas (Glass pad). I am not sure how the Helios compares to the Logitech plastic pad so take that in consideration. I cannot use my Helios side by side at the moment but it is definitely faster than the glass pad. The Helios felt almost uncontrollable to me. The glass pad is still very fast but has just enough control for me to be precise. I think you could definitely speed up the glass pad with polish if its too slow although I have not tried. As for overall quality the glass pad absolutely dominates the plastic one in every way. I like my glass pad much more and since you already like hard pads I think you will love it!
I am very interested to see how your "sheet of textured glass" experiment from the other comment goes!
Mate just want to thank you for taking the time to make this video! Great content and appreciate you sharing your knowledge from seemingly years worth of experimenting. I’m for sure going to give it a go and have purchased a hard pad 😊
Thanks man, I super appreciate it. These video's take me forever so it's nice to hear people find them helpful. If you like a lower friction and/or consistent friction, for sure you should try one! Right now, I'm strongly considering a glass pad. Not because the plastic ones are bad or anything, but mostly because I live far away from civilization and stuff's hard to get here so I can't just go get another one (can't even order it by mail). I'm hoping between my giant sheet of teflon for mouse feet and a glass pad, I can go half a decade or more without replacing anything! :) Best of luck!
Heyyyy, good video, it has resolved one of the questions that I had had regarding hardpads. The only thing that continues to frustrate me is the fact that my fingers and wrist are too sticky and that makes my aim inconsistent. I was wondering if the hard pad treatment can help in that regard maybe (Or it could be a skill issue?)
Also, sorry if I sound a bit bot, my english is not the best xd
Your English is just fine. :) I wonder if perhaps a hand fan might help. One issue I had is that just due to age and health (I'm 50+ and housebound, I love it, but it beats me to death. Lol!), even with dry air, even with A/C, I sweat like a feature so I set up two different fans to keep myself dry/cool. One for the rest of me, but one that blows down partly on the pad, partly towards my arm/fingers/hand where it touches the pad. Without it, I get about 10 minutes before I'm sticky, with it, if my health would let me, I could go 16 hours solid and still be totally dry. Plus, it feels far more consistent over time as well and consistent helps land those wild shots we all crave. :) I just used a small plug in walwart power supply of about 6 to 9 volts and wired it up to a cheap PC case fan and then hot melt glued it to a little mount I made. Anything that holds it in place would work. Definitely worth trying. A case fan is like 10 bucks. Just make sure you get the wiring correct the first time. Red to red, aka, red to positive. Getting them backwards will kill lots of fans first time within a fraction of a second. But they're cheap too. You could buy three of them for like 20 bucks and just do it at random, throw one out if you get it wrong and do the next one the other way round and still have a spare if it wears out. :)
@@GamingHelp Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate your time. I'll keep experimenting and see how it ends xd, the idea of the fans can work, I have a small one in some place, thanks!
@@JustTeXer: You are very welcome. I would love to hear how it works out for you as well! Best of luck! :)
excellent video, some crisp snipes from you there, if i ever get practicing with mnk, i will return to this video to set up that juicy slick speedy config
Tee hee! I think you're talking about YOUR snipes! Man oh man some of those are fast. I should have spent some more time sifting though. I know I've seen some that you've posted that were basically one frame of animation. Thanks again for letting me use some of your content in this! :)
@@GamingHelp happy to help out
Can you suggest another product to eliminate friction from the mouse pad as I couldn't find pledge brand furniture ?
That would depend on your kind of pad. I've recently tested a few other things, one of which is beeswax. Like, the real deal from a beekeeper. If you have a hard pad though, you can pretty much just try stuff and wash it off with soap/water and a small scrub brush (Plastic bristles only for obvious reasons). I suspect any decent furniture polish will work, but the one thing I've noticed regardless of what I've used is that in many cases, less is more. By that, I mean apply it sparingly. You could just try whatever you have on hand. I'd try and apply whatever you're trying on a very tiny spot that won't bug you if it gets buggered up though. Some plastics and various solvents don't get along well and may melt the surface so try a tiny bit on the very edge or something.
Hmm what about glass pads?
This is a good question! If I had to guess, I would think it would be outstanding as well, but I haven't ever tried one so I don't really know. I WOULD like to try one though. I bought a sheet of textured glass to try as a pad, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I suspect the glass pads would last longer than the plastic topped ones though! That's the biggest reason I'm considering trying one myself. The plastic ones are ridiculously good performance and that dressing pad thing I showed here makes it so that it only takes seconds to modify the friction in any way you want and in any place you want, but they do still wear over time, even if it takes half a decade. :) If you ever get a chance to use one, I'd love to hear how you like it though!