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Everglide sales

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Originally posted by: BLoop
The problem with these Everglide specials is that shipping is like $8. At least it was last time I checked. If I'm wrong than disregard this post.

BTW, if your interested in Mouse skates check here. It was $3.50 for 8" of this teflon tape shipped a few months ago. It looks like it may be cheaper now and it's thicker than what Everglide is selling, 0.005" vs 0.003". You can buy in bulk also if you have friends that want some.

I'm not involved in any way with the guy that's selling this other than I'm a happy customer. You can check their ResellerRatings.
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thanks dude!
 
I believe this "Teflon Tape" is the same stuff you can find at your local Home Depot or Lowes. You can get 520" for $0.97. It's SKU #788287 @ Home depot. They say it's normally used as a sealant tape. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Originally posted by: XxParrotxX
I believe this "Teflon Tape" is the same stuff you can find at your local Home Depot or Lowes. You can get 520" for $0.97. It's SKU #788287 @ Home depot. They say it's normally used as a sealant tape. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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that kinda teflon tape is for pipe threading. would be awesome if it weren't for the fact that it has no adhesive surface🙁

works by static cling sorta to the pipe therads, then u just kinda squash it by screwing pipes together.


i've yet to find a rollof the d@mned tape these places sell🙁 i'd rahter not pay 8" at a time.


as for mousemats, supposedly there was a period where everglide switched plastics. they switched back eventually. if ur mousemat wore out fast, u got the icky plastic.
i have one of each. one def sucks compared to the other🙁 damn i wish their shipping were lower. arg, how much is shipping on a rats pad? it would be 11bux + shipping right? if it beats 2-4bux +8 dollars shipping ..... ?

a table would be fine, if it were textured like the everglide grr.

http://www.dansdata.com/mousemats2.htm



Everglide have a problem.

The problem is that their mousemats don't wear out. Well, not fast enough, anyway. Diligent use of a hard plastic mousemat will, over a year or three, polish it down, and it's possible to gouge it or lose it or absent-mindedly put it in the oven for an hour on high. But, generally speaking, the things just last and last.

If you want to sell more mousemats, that's bad. It leaves you trying to find new and exciting products that'll induce people to upgrade.

There's only so much a manufacturer can do with the hard plastic mousemat concept. They can make them in different shapes and sizes, but Everglide standardised on three basic shapes some time ago, and probably aren't itching to start bringing out limited-run love-heart, map-of-Texas and pentagram versions.

They've tried making mats with weird stuff printed on them, possibly in hopes that gamers will keep a bag full of mats with appropriate printing on them for the game currently being played, but I can't honestly say game-promoting mousemats strike me as being something that you ought to have to pay for.

Everglide's latest innovation, though, is in even my curmudgeonly opinion, pretty cool. It's associated with a bit of a problem, though.

Everglide mats were originally made of polyethylene. That's a very tough plastic, which wears out very slowly.

In March 2001, though, they switched to polystyrene. There were a few other changes made in this "reengineering", which are mentioned in the press release, but the change of materials was a biggie.

The new plastic made the mats noticeably harder. Unfortunately, it didn't make them longer lasting. There were sufficient complaints about the white, black and blue polystyrene mats wearing out faster than the polyethylene ones that my sponsor, Aus PC Market, stopped stocking the things. I've independently verified this now, by the highly scientific method of using one of the mats for a few months; in only two months of regular use, from the time I first wrote this review to this update I'm writing now, a polystyrene Everglide has gone from its initial textured-all-over finish to being quite noticeably worn. The worn out part of the mat has considerably more drag. I wouldn't say the mat is worn out yet, but it won't be much longer before it is. Polystyrene is not a good material for textured mousemats.

The original polyethylene, in contrast, isn't very rigid, but it's extremely tough. You can wear out a polyethylene mat eventually, but it takes a long time.

Besides its unfortunate effect on durability, polystyrene made it possible for Everglide to make the mats clear.

The natural state of polystyrene is crystal-clear; you have to add pigment to it to make it any other colour. Polystyrene is the stuff used for ordinary CD jewel cases; that's how clear it is. Jewel cases are fragile because their plastic is thin; Everglide mats are thick enough that attempts to break them are more likely to break you.

So, when Everglide started making mats out of polystyrene, they could make clear mats.

Except they couldn't, because a clear mat won't work with an optical mouse. Modern optical mouses only work on surfaces that aren't transparent, translucent or reflective (old-fashioned opticals were even pickier; they needed special patterned pads).

Everglide's original milky-white pads, therefore, are no good for opticals. Varnished desks can be dodgy, too.

It turns out, however, that you can make a clear mouse mat that'll work with an optical mouse. You just have to add stuff to the plastic that the mouse can see.

It would appear that the best stuff to add is glitter.



Hence, these. They've got the normal Everglide Attack Pad (oval) and Giganta (rectangular) form factors, but the "Optical" versions were made of clear polystyrene with glitter in it, and the "Optical Smoke" versions are grey-tinted, with a larger dose of glitter.

The polystyrene mats wore out fast, so Everglide changed the formulation again. Back to polyethylene, I think. I've played with the new-new models of Optical pad now, and they're milkier in appearance than the ones photographed above; you can't make crystal clear polyethylene. I haven't tested the new-new pads long enough to be sure, but I think it's a pretty safe bet to say that they'll last as long as the original Everglides.





 
i wonder if theres a way to order grabbag style ommitting white pads. cuz u know, white while being nice looking, seriously screw up optical mice🙁
 
When Everglide refers to a "grab bag" mousepad, they're referring to a mousepad with a random color and logo on it. Essentially, they randomly choose (not you) a mousepad with some color and logo and send it to you. My guess is that they're probably some overstock or otherwise, mousepads with designs that no one really showed interest in. The same concept would apply to the Mouse Bungee but instead it would apply just to random colors.
 
Got tape from FragWare yesterday. Sweet. If you're ordering from Everglide anywayz, grab some tape/skates. It's definitely worth using.

 
not really, these are low friction pads that let you move around with less effort which is good for gaming, which is why they are called everglide, not ball gripper🙂. i tried desk for a while after getting optical, its just not the same😛 if your not a gamer or havn't experienced it, i guess u can poo poo it easily🙂 once u get used to it u can't go back.


cloth pads seriously piss me off.
 
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