Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!mblakele From: mblakele@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Tad Blakeley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Rust on Kensington Trackball rollers? Message-ID: <5380@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 23 Mar 90 20:52:16 GMT References: <8045@tank.uchicago.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Lines: 34 In article saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Lennart Saaf) writes: >In article <8045@tank.uchicago.edu> fri0@tank.uchicago.edu (Christian >E. Fritze) writes: > > The rollers on my Kensington ADB Turbo Mouse trackball are pitted > > and have what looks to be RUST on them! Is this possible? >I'm not surprised. We have 3 of these things and over the course of a >year I have grown to hate them. They stick, the ball falls out, the >cursor jiggles on the screen by magic, etc... >Bottom line: P.U. Don't waste your money. >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >| Len Saaf, The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY | >| Internet: saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu Bitnet: SAAF@UOROPT | >------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm afraid I have to disagree. The rollers do get gummed up, with what I believe is more dirt than rust, especially as it's worse in hot weather. However, it only takes a screwdriver and some time to take the thing apart and clean it. I wouldn't part with my Kensington. Besides, between it and my Dvorak KCHR, almost no one wants to borrow my mac :-) -- tad . . -- ~ ...[physicists] who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill. S W -- D. Adams T I mblakele@jarthur.claremont.edu, but call me Tad R B West is Best, Carpe Potum ~