get an exacto knife and strip the plastic off the cord

Put it in the oven.

Shove it down the back of your pants, make cat ears and jump around like a faggot.

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Tape it to your desk. Seriously it works.

ahhh the good old tape trick! works every time!

It's not perfect though. What has been said to be close to is stripping the cable then fix it to the desk with whichever method (monitor, tape, bible).

Still, modding hardware is for unemployed fat people. Just tape the cable, wait for the mouse to die because of the cable and buy the newest zowie. If you still prefer the WMO then buy another one (used) or wait eternally for one man projects.

There are some mice that have better cables and that are compatible with the WMO and IE3.0 (you don't even need to rewire the PCB connector) and that you could use. I don't know which, but shouldn't be too hard to find out.

take off the coating

dont need any specific tools like comment 1 said, just a pair of small scissors (toe nails ones) and patience.

takes around 20 mins, 15 spent in removing the copper wires

remove plastic cord, remove copper and the aluminium-lookalike thing beneath the copper

dont strip it all just as much as you need