Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!otc!elson From: elson@otc.otca.oz (Elson Markwick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: The Amiga Mouse Message-ID: <2132@otc.otca.oz> Date: 3 Jan 91 05:11:17 GMT References: <1990Dec18.185050.11886@convex.com> <41604@ut-emx.uucp> <17932@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <3520@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> Reply-To: elson@otc.UUCP (Elson Markwick) Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia Lines: 25 In article <3520@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> tym@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Tim MacKenzie) writes: > >The "bubble switch" contacts are rubbish and always have been. Why C= did >not put proper micro-switch buttons in puzzles me. [ Maybe the poor quality >of the rollers meant that the buttons would outlast them ;) ]. I installed >micro-switch buttons in my mouse ~8 months ago, cost about $15 Oz, and can >recommend them to all. They simply replace the existing switches and require >a little filing down of the push-rods. If you think about, those bubble switches *are* a form of microswitch. If the bubbles aren't too fatigued, they act as an overcenter device much like the more traditional microswitch. I've had my 500 now (and it's mouse) for about 2 years now, and it was already 18 months old when I bought it. The left mouse button is just starting to go now, and I'm fairly sure that it will be reasonably easy to fix without replacing it. BTW, wouldn't you have to cut holes in the mouse pcb or at least change the buttons to get a microswitch to fit in there? The smallest microswitch I've ever seen is about 13mm long x 10mm high x 1.5mm wide - and I had a bitch of a job finding something that small. -- Elson Markwick | The only good cat |ACSnet: elson@otc.otca.oz.au OTC R & D Unit |is a stir-fried cat|UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!otc.otca.oz.au!elson Ph: 02 287 3142| ALF |Internet: elson%otc.otca.oz.au@uunet.uu.net Fax:02 287 3299| |Snail: GPO Box 7000, Sydney 2001, Australia