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From: aduncan@rhea.trl.oz (Allan Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The Amiga Mouse
Message-ID: <2570@trlluna.trl.oz>
Date: 6 Jan 91 23:22:09 GMT
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From article <7384@sugar.hackercorp.com>, by peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva):
> The amiga mouse is a nice mouse, it feels great, and the roller mechanicals
> are very rugged. *BUT* those damn bubble switches have got to go.
> -- 

I'm still running my 1000 mouse from way back when.  Over the years I
have had to -

Re-terminate _both_ ends of the cable (the flexing breaks it a few
inches from the strain relief).  The mouse end was easy, you just pull
the cable through the strain relief, but the other end was a cow, with
the moulded 90 deg. shape and soldered-in connector shielding.

Replace the switches a couple of times.  Although they are better than
the dimples, they still fail.

Completely remove the black plastic assembly to get at the idler wheel
shaft to properly clean it (experience with a solder sucker essential).


The 2000 here at work has dimples, and gave me trouble once, so I peeled
back the sticky and cleaned them with alcohol.  I then got a conversion
kit, but the threat of it has kept the dimples honest, and it is still
sitting in the drawer  for a couple of years.
Both mice have nickel plated brass rollers - I've seen samples of the
steel ones in shops, and they are corroded easily.  Lastest ones seem to
be a plastic material - but I haven't seen a well-used one yet.
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