HEAVY mouse switches needed...

[Asanthracinus]

Upon learning that I occasionally fix peoples' mice (mostly just soldering on new switches when an old one goes bad), my father made a request of me. He's been struggling with Parkinson's for a few years now and only recently got medication to help. Sadly, the medication isn't fixing one of his most frustrating problems: he can't seem to keep his middle finger from resting too heavily on his right mouse button and so he's regularly right clicking when he's not meaning to. 

I'd like to help him by finding some mouse switches with really heavy operating force. This has proven difficult since most gamers seem to prefer varying degrees of hair-trigger sensitivity. Is there anyone out there who can point me in the direction of some heavy switches?

[Hinjima]

2 minutes ago, Asanthracinus said:

Upon learning that I occasionally fix peoples' mice (mostly just soldering on new switches when an old one goes bad), my father made a request of me. He's been struggling with Parkinson's for a few years now and only recently got medication to help. Sadly, the medication isn't fixing one of his most frustrating problems: he can't seem to keep his middle finger from resting too heavily on his right mouse button and so he's regularly right clicking when he's not meaning to. 

I'd like to help him by finding some mouse switches with really heavy operating force. This has proven difficult since most gamers seem to prefer varying degrees of hair-trigger sensitivity. Is there anyone out there who can point me in the direction of some heavy switches?

That might be difficult to find. Could you map the right click to thumb button or similar with software instead?

[dizmo]

Would a vertical mouse be more useful?

[CreedTT]

6 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Would a vertical mouse be more useful?

this would definitely be an easier solution than finding a heavy switch

[Asanthracinus]

Thank you all. We're going to try the vertical option. I've not experimented with trying to map the right click elsewhere. If that doesn't work, I might try it.

 

[SorryBella]

There's a lot more thing to mouse actuation weight than just the switch. The mechanism to click it also affects the actuation weight and that varies by a lot from the basic straight clicking on the switch button to the stupid like the lever system that Logitech G305 has. And honestly? Id absolutely consider touch screen or vertical mouse.

 

But to answer you to kill the cat, Kailh GM 8.0 is at around 70 gram with +- 10 gram tolerance around that specification. Yes, actuation weight varies that much, thats why if you want to chase specific actuation weight you need to also pick yourself a push gauge and be ready to have A FUCK TON of spare switches.