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From: eeh@public.BTR.COM (Eduardo E. Horvath  eeh@btr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mouse button problems
Summary: There's more than one mouse
Message-ID: <1066@public.BTR.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 90 02:45:25 GMT
References: <1990Nov25.201657.14797@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Nov25.224026.17485@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu> <1990Nov26.065402.12602@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Nov26.065402.12602@agate.berkeley.edu> nj@bansai (...) writes:
>kaufmads@clutx.clarkson.edu said:
>
>>Help:  My left mouse button is dying.  It stopped clicking and
>>won't responed all the time.  I thought I heard of a way to fix
>>this problem, maybe by cleaning the contacts?  Any have an
>>experience with this?
>
>I have an A1000 mouse with the same problem.  Basically, the button
>works by depressing a little metal dimple, which touches the switch
>and then pops back up.  Over time, the dimple tends to flatten out,
>so it doesn't contact as well.
>
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	That's interesting.  My A1000 mouse has little black microswitches.  I
took it in to be serviced because the right button was sticking, but they
claimed they had never seen buttons like mine before, so they couldn't fix
the problem.  

	The moral to this story:  Identify exactly what types of switches your
computer has.  A1000's particularly seem to be made from whatever parts C= had
lying around.  Look at the power switch on a few.  They come in several
differnt colors.

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