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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Cleaned my mouse... Broke my mouse?
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Date: 28 Dec 89 16:06:55 GMT
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I just cleaned what appeared to be some scum off of the rollers of my mouse.
Unfortunately, the mouse now has serious problems tracking vertically.  I
fear that the "scum" was in fact purposely put there by Apple to provide
traction for the ball.

Should the rollers in an Apple mouse be perfectly clean, or should they have
something on them?  If I just ruined them, is there anything I can do to
redeposit the appropriate material?

(By problems with tracking I mean: I can move the mouse horizontally as fast
as I want and the cursor moves.  However, moving it vertically fast (to get
to a menu, for instance) results in the cursor moving only a few inches, or
moving in a jerky manner.)
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)