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From: johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mouse problem
Summary: Check the mouse ball.
Message-ID: <12468@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 15 Apr 89 23:56:30 GMT
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In article <0545.AA0545@caleb> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
>      my B2000 mouse is having an intermittant problem.  The horizontal
>movement intermittently fails.  I've tried cleaning the rollers, but this
>had no effect (basically, the rollers were pretty clean.  I use a mousepad
>all the time.)

I was having intermittent problems with my ~1 year-old B2000 mouse, except
that the vertical movement would occassionally fail.  I used a mouse pad
all the time, and I kept the rollers relentlessly clean (I *hate* bumpy
mice).  As it turns outs, the problem wasn't with a broken wire or broken
electronics, but with the mouse ball.  It seems that a mouse pad prevents
the ball from wearing down, and a thin layer of gunk had accumulated on
the rubber and impeded contact between the ball and the plastic rollers.
A quick cleaning with a detergent counter-top cleaner removed the gunk
and restored a nice shining "grippy" mouse ball and the problems went away.

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