Razer Mamba Disassembly Tutorial and fix squeaky mouse

I created this tutorial because there was no disassembly guides on the internet for the Razer Mamba, and there also wasn't any solutions to fix the squeaky mouse buttons.

What you should know about the Razer Mamba before disassembly:

1. Don't blame me if you mess up, it will void your warranty

2. Disassembly will help solve the squeaky mouse
3. The underside screws are really cheap, they will strip easily (no really, they will strip easily)

Instructions:

1. There are a total of four screws that need to be removed. The first location of the screw is under the battery cover. Be careful, these screws will strip easily and for $130 mouse I expected better from Razer. Seriously, how can you not provide decent screws when the mouse costs $130??? If you fail at taking the screw under the battery cover off you'll have to do what I did. Use a Dremel or a small drill and drill and break off the screw. Be careful of the circuit board, there isn't really much circuit board close to where the screw mount holes. But just make sure you don't damage the board. When you have either of these methods done, make sure you throw away the screw. Really, throw it AWAY! You will only risk stripping the screw even more to only have to damage the Mamba case even more to get it open again.

2. The second screw location is under the long mouse feet. You need to peel off the long teflon feet and remove the screw. Make sure you keep your teflon feet somewhere there isn't much dust otherwise they won't stick back on properly.

3. The last two screws are on the sides under the rubber flaps. It is on the side closest to the front of the mouse. You need to lift those rubber flaps off and take off both of the small black screws.

4. Now grab the bottom part of the mouse base and lift up and towards you. The bottom base will come off easily.

5. The last few steps should be easy, in order for you to be able to remove the mouse wheel to fix the squeaky noise you need to remove three screws. There are three screws, two of them are located ontop of the two thumb buttons. They are the longest ones so you don't have to worry about mixing them up with the other one. Take those off and then remove the last screw on the board (in this picture it is located on the bottom). After you have removed the last three screws don't try to lift the board up yet. Carefully remove the board that holds the LED in the inside of the mouse wheel. You don't want to yank it off because the wires will break easily and you will have to re-solder them back on. Now lift the board up so you can remove the wheel. Now remove the rubber wheel and clean it with soap and water. You will notice that one side of the rubber wheel is thicker than the other. Put the thickest side away from the green pinion wheel. Because the thickest side is on the left side closest to the pinion wheel it will rub against the Mamba's casing causing the mouse to squeak and be REALLY REALLY ANNOYING! No reverse all steps to put it back together. This will fix the squeaky issue of the mouse.

Other thoughts:

For a $130 mouse I expected some decent screws but I was disappointed at how cheap Razer went with the screws. They strip so easily you might as well have screws that were made of sand. The squeakiness of the mouse wheel is caused by dead skin and oil rolling on the mouse wheel. The wheel rubs close enough to the casing that it squeaks like mouse constantly. It gets pretty annoying so I was determined to go to great lengths to fix this, even if it means breaking my $130 mouse. The mouse wheel feels a bit weird with the rubber wheel lumpy side on the right but it's better than hearing it squeak everytime you scroll. Me thinks Razer better go back to the drawing board for this one.

Other things I wish Razer would provide:

1. Teflon feet for my Mamba, they wear out too fast using eXact Mat and my mouse base starts scraping against the mouse pad. I had to switch to a cloth pad as you can see in my pictures.

2. Provide us a replacement battery or backup battery and a charging kit or something. The battery doesn't last long enough for me. I use my mouse daily up to 8 hours or more doing work and playing games.