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Razer Baskilisk V3 - Scroll Wheel feels very slow and stiff

  • August 20, 2024
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Greetings all. Recently, my Razer Basilisk V3’s scroll wheel has been incredibly “Gunky” To scroll with. I’ve tried cleaning it with 93% isopropyl alcohol, I’ve tried updating the firmware, I’ve installed and reinstalled synapse at least three times now, I’ve also cleaned inside the scroll wheel by using GUM Soft-Picks, and I can confirm that the inside is now clean, there was some hair inside of it, but I managed to get it out. Unfortunately, that has still not solved the problem. 

I’m on the fence between buying a new mouse entirely, or trying to dismantle the one I currently own to find the problem. If there are any other, non-last resort options, I would love to hear them! I really do like this mouse, and it would be shamed for me to have to pre-maturely shelve it because of this issue with the scroll wheel. Help would be very much appreciate, thank you in advance.

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  • Dobypeti
  • September 27, 2026

Hi from the future. This may be the same issue so I’m posting it here:

The Basilisk V3 has a scroll wheel design and quality flaw. I am on my second warranty replacement (so third mouse in total), and it suffered just like the previous two from the mouse wheel starting to have friction/resistance after just a few months of use, with the issue somewhat varying in intensity but overall getting worse. It severely impairs the free-scrolling mode, and you can even feel it in standard scrolling depending on the severity of the problem at a given time.

Since the then-reliable webshop I got the mouse from changed owner in a way that the new owners threw past customers’ data including warranty (even ongoing cases) in the trash, I opened up my mouse to check if I can fix this goddamn problem, and turns out I could.

The problem is that the rubber on the scroll wheel expands after just 2-3 months of use, and there is so little space between the wheel and its mechanism that the rubber of the wheel and its bumps stick into the mechanism’s metal part. And not using the mouse probably makes the rubber temporarily shrink back a bit which would explain the variability. Also, the mouse wheel mechanism is designed in a way that dust builds up and condenses in a ridiculous amount, which may also hinder scrolling.

I took apart the mouse and took out the scroll wheel assembly -- see "Razer Basilisk V3 Scroll Wheel Assembly Replacement" on iFixit --, took out the scroll mechanism metal, then the scroll wheel from it -- you have to push the wheel sideways REALLY hard toward the encoder, which will come out with it --, and after cleaning the crap surprise and pressing on the rubber on opposite sides to check how expanded it is, I took the rubber off the mouse wheel, cut off a piece from it (in my case about the size of what is between two bumps times two), and glued the two ends of the rubber back together with superglue. After the glue has set I put the wheel with its rubber and the metal back into the assembly to check if it worked fine and it goddamn did, free spin too which you can manually move the mechanism of, though the glue was too much so I took the wheel (and metal) out and filed off from the excess until it was pretty flat. I put the mouse back together and the scroll wheel is nearly like new, the filed glue is barely noticeable too.

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I’ve noticed the same thing with my Basilisk V3. The wheel feels much harder to scroll now, especially when scrolling slowly. It’s pretty annoying because the mouse is otherwise working fine.

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