Remember all those legendary OSP matches you played with your old one back in 2001, oh man, the memories...

It's a depressing state of affairs for ESR that a one comment thread is the only thing sitting in the hot topics section :(

If you can, try opening a window in your room and let it air out, I agree the newer ones are more pungent for whatever reason, but it completely went away for me after four or five days.

I believe these fuckers have been saving on production cost on each further iteration. The original QCK heavy before they switched to the new cleaner logo had a more robust look and the base had a material that resembled some sort of rubber, I reckon it was impossible to move with my finger and now I can move this one pushing. I mean its not a problem to the point it moves while playing. But anyway, I think they've changed something. Maybe the material has to do with this annoying smell. This shit cannot be healthy because it feels like some sort of industrial material. Like when you enter a chinese shop filled with plastics. Luckily I have an air purifier next to me.

wash it

Which product can I use to not fuck it up? just water? Im concerned that even the water fucks the texture up. I just buy a new one once a year.

I've thrown some of my qcks in with the washing like 20 times over the years. I probably shouldn't but they come out like new (although granted the logo is half faded and the edges are a little frayed by this point).

So yeah just try with water.

Don't put in wash machine, use microfiber tissu and water.

For a used pad, water won't do it, nor will dish soap. Hand washing powder works wonders, will bring out a lot of grime you didn't think was there (it has enzymes and shit, it's made specifically to loosen your skin cells from fabrics, which is exactly our application :)). I just put it in a bath tub and use a sponge on the fabric, easier to cover the whole area compared to a cloth.

Washing powder is also the thing to use on keyboards, you just put the keys in, swirl it a bit and everything's clean, it's magic. I laugh at people scrubbing for hours with window cleaners or dish soap.

Completely off-topic in this thread, but hey, since you guys started ;)

Link to such a product? Not sure what you mean.

Also are you sure there arent remainders of such products left? since I sit on my ass for many hours touching the mousepad im concerned im absorbing all the chemicals in there, begining by the qck itself and its industrial weird plastic smell.

He means washing powder/liquid - a laundry detergent. It's just cloth.

As I said, this was off-topic - you're not looking to wash a used pad from hand grime. You bought a brand new poisonous stinky pad you should just return to save your health ;)

If it's the horrible toxic rubber smell I'm thinking of, I don't know of any way of neutralizing it safely. In my encounters with it, whatever magical process people propose, that kind of rubber will turn brittle before the stench is gone.

(As a former loyal QCK+ user, I still recommend checking out https://spcgear.com/en/product/endorphy-cordura-speed-l/ if you're ready for an upgrade ;))

how thick is it? ive become used to the qck heavy, the rest seem too thin

sounds good that you dont have to wash it tho

3 mm according to that site (calipers say 3,08 mm), but it's soft enough for me, spongier than QCK+ or G-TF I had before (not to mention the Roccat Siru ;)), but if you like 6 mm QCK Heavy, most likely not spongy enough for you.

This I can easily squish in if I use my fingertips, and it's soft for the bone on the outside of the wrist, but a forearm won't sink into it. This is good balance between comfort and precise mousing (so the mouse doesn't go through hills and valleys in the pad), but you're used to more give, so probably not for you.

Oh, you still have to clean it. Yes, it's easy to wipe if you've spilled a drink on it, nice bonus feature for a pad that doesn't feel like completely rubber/plastic top :) It's not magic though - swiping your sweaty arm and hand over any pad (even glass) covers it with a layer of oily sticky skin cell cocktail, so eventually it's washing powder time :)

Do you know any 6mm ish alternatives?

only girls complain about smelly things.

just use it for 1-2weeks and youre done.

Love the smell of chemicals in the morning

Nothing as good as unboxing a new mouse pad and getting hit by the smellz.

Embrace it :-)

this, enjoy the smell

when you walk into a room full of steamers that's what smells, nothing like the smell of streamers. not keen though wbu all x

I cleaned mine in the washing/dryer. Them sell them at local walmart/bb could just replace it

if you do naughty things om it it will stay smell funny even longer ;)

I jerk off when I out lg heartless on thunderstruck

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