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From: hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu (Stephen Haase)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: bad mousie
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.193916.10111@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 91 19:39:16 GMT
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I have had nothing but trouble with my Apple Mouse. I bought my //ci about 
15 months ago and within 2 weeks the little grey strip on the bottome of the
mouse that holds the ball in came off. That wasn't really a big deal as it
still worked fine. But I use my mouse fairly extensively(about a mile a week
according to mouse odometer) and I was forced to clean my mouse 2-3 times per
day(not per week or month) and this is with a mouse pad! After a few months,
it started tracking badly and no amount of cleaning would help it. so I 
unscrewed it to look around. As it turns out, there are two metal tubes that
track the mouse and one plastic white one that exerts pressure on the ball to
keep in contact with the two meatl tubes. My white plastic roller wasn't 
doing its job very well so I had to place a spacer on it to keep the pressure
up. Then after a few more months, the vertical metal tube started flaking out
so I had to put another spacer on it. That worked for about 2 months and now
it is not working again... I'm getting fed up with it and as soon as I can
scrape up enough $$$ I'm going to buy a trackball...
Steve
hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu