Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Mouse problems... Message-ID: <1991May5.002434.5997@NCoast.ORG> Date: 5 May 91 00:24:34 GMT References: <19144651.ARN1c68@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Distribution: comp Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 21 As quoted from <19144651.ARN1c68@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> by dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton): +--------------- | In article , jefF rizzO writes: | > Recently, my mouse has been giving me problems moving left and right... | > It started a while ago, (don't remember precisely when) with a loss of | > smoothness. That is, the left-right motion became somewhat jerky. Then, | > about 4 days ago, it stopped responding left-right at all. I figured | > it was probably the cable, so I opened it up, and removed about 2 inches | | Er, you have cleaned all the built up gunge around the rollers, haven't you? +--------------- Sometimes the rollers themselves go bad --- that sticky stuff clumps, and you can't get rid of it or smooth it out. ++Brandon (on the outside, looking in) -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery Ham: KB8JRR/AA 10m,6m,2m,220,440,1.2 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG (restricted HF at present) Delphi: ALLBERY AMPR: kb8jrr.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery KB8JRR @ WA8BXN.OH