Anyone try a non slip tape on a Deathadder?

[Childs]

Anyone try a non slip tape on a Deathadder? I bought one a week ago and for the most part its been great, but I am a craw grip guy and thumb tends to slip when I grip it. I was thinking about using some kind of tape on the side, and just wondered if anyone else tried and what there results were. I guess I'm looking for suggestions on what kind of tape would be good to use. I dont want the tape to start moving around.

 

[0roo0roo]

just get a g9 and use the rough grip

 

[Childs]

lol I just bought the Deathadder on sale. I know the G9x was the one I wanted but its like $100. I need to go ghetto this time around...

 

[0roo0roo]

thats why you buy the original
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1893064
40bucks or so for the g9.

 

[Childs]

I saw that, which got me looking at the G9, but apparently the lasers fail or something in the G9, which was fixed in the G9x. It was shaddy enough to make me look elsewhere.

 

[0roo0roo]

never heard of that my g9's been doing fine as have all my other laser logitech mice.

a quick google brings up nothing. perhaps you put a little too much weight behind a rumor from who knows where. logitech sticks by their warrantys as wel.
its not a big concern.

 

[Childs]

http://www.nivas.hr/blog/2008/05/16/rip-g9-–-logitech-demise-the-saga-continues/
http://forums.logitech.com/t5/G-Ser...ut-after-a-bit-under-a-year-of-use/m-p/422055

There are issues like above, but I'm sure if I looked at enough blogs I can find them for any product. I got the deathadder for $40, so I figured why deal with the hassle of the G9 dying on me in the middle of a battle. $40 for another mouse is almost impulse territory, but itf some tape will make the $40 I already spent better then why not. The Deathadder otherwise is a great mouse...I dont want to return it, even if it does slip from my thumb.

All that being said...I'll probably end up spending another $40. I play too much BFBC2 to skimp on the essentials. But I will still want to use tape for the Deathadder as a backup, or on my PS3.

 

[0roo0roo]

that is seriously old and is just a blog post from a site i've never heard of
the g9's been on sale several times on slickdeals and that is a much large sample size, any quick failures woulda been reported in those threads.
whatever went on was fixed long ago. lasers are now used in all logitechs mice anyways,so if they had dodgy sensors/emitters they'd be in a buncha trouble.

the wire, some people seem to abuse their wire somehow mines just fine. you should be using a mouse bungee or simply use a binder clip on the back of your desk with the wire threaded through the handles to prevent cord drag anyways.

 

[Childs]

FYI, I bought some hockey stick tape at Sports Authority for like $3 and it works great. There is also apparently a market for this, its called mouse grips. A couple of companies make it for around $5-$15. They are like non slip stickers you put all over your mouse.

 

[CZroe]

never heard of that my g9's been doing fine as have all my other laser logitech mice.

a quick google brings up nothing. perhaps you put a little too much weight behind a rumor from who knows where. logitech sticks by their warrantys as wel.
its not a big concern.

Do they ever. I waited through half my warranty period before ever connecting my $400 Z-680 speakers only to find a few months later that they had SERIOUS issues when using digital surround sound (DD/DTS). A test with SoundStorm would have missing/incorrect channels and *SCREECHING* garbled staticy noise. In analog mode, two speakers did not work at all. A quick search online revealed tons of people with the same problem. It took me a week to find my warranty paperwork for the call and-BAM! Logitech shot me down for being 2 days past the warranty, which I didn't know until after I found the paperwork more than a full week after encountering the problem (almost a month after suspecting something was wrong). It could have been like that for a few months but I didn't play anything that used the rear channels to notice.