If there is something that can be an impediment when buying a gaming mouse, it is precisely the fact of not having an arsenal of parts available for sale for replacement due to wear or tear. More and more users are looking at the support of parts, since mice are increasingly long-lived and adapting to a new one requires a lot of time and training. Within them, what suffers the most are undoubtedly the mouse pads, but where can we buy new ones?
Don’t be surprised if you really have trouble finding the right replacement for your PTFE gaming mouse pads. These pads are generally not offered by manufacturers, since they consider that they are hard enough to find a substitute for them. But the reality is that with hours and hours of gaming marathons they end up wearing out, especially if we take into account that we can put a lot of pressure on them or expose them to more or less aggressive surfaces.
Where to buy replacement gaming mouse pads?
As we well know, each mouse has a different shape of pads and they do not usually share them with other models. Therefore, there is usually one type of pad per mouse, unique and non-transferable, so finding it can be a complicated task depending on which brands.
Perhaps the most obvious question would be, why change the pads? Basically in order not to lose performance, since both acceleration and braking, as well as the distance from the sensor to the surface becomes worse or less, so we not only lose distance and time ratio, but precision can also be lost.
Buy the mouse pads in the online store of the brand?
It is usually the first step for every child of a neighbor, trying to find the part on the brand’s own website. But unfortunately, it is rare to find a company that offers these very specific products, especially if the mouse is 3 or more years old.
And if that happens, either the model is widely known and the brand keeps it current, or we will not have the option to buy them.
Ebay
It is usually the best known portal and where it is possible to find any PTFE pad without too many problems. It is true that in lesser known mice these do not work like that, but normally we will have no problem finding our model as soon as it has had good sales.
Amazon
In our country you have to specify keywords such as PTFE, replacements, slider or similar so that the replacement will appear in the search. Normally they are external sellers who offer them, as a general rule outside our country, so you will have to mix English with Spanish to find them. Other words that work well are: feet, or mouse feet, skates or skate …
Aliexpress
It is where we will find the greatest number of units and variety by far. In fact, it will be difficult not to find the specific one for our specific model. We can use as a guide the same words that we have put for Amazon for example.
The only problem is that as usual, the replacement may take a long time to arrive, but it is the price to pay to find it.
If for whatever reason we cannot find them officially, we can always buy a piece of PTFE and cut it to our liking following the pattern of the original pad. We will only have to make sure that the thickness is the closest to when we bought it, so it would be necessary to add between 1 mm and 3 mm approximately and depending on the wear it has suffered.