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- From: HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: The bottom trackball button on a PB 160 is stuck
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 11:50:10 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- In article <C1HMqJ.zt@irvine.com>,
- billy@irvine.com (*** Bouncer **) writes:
- >>It is not in the "click" position, so it is still fully possible to
- >>use the PB with the top button. However, I must press the bottom
- >>button _very_ firmly (in fact, I think what I am doing is bending the
- >>button enough to make contact) to register a click.
- >
- >My PB145 upper mouse button is busted on one side. It seems that a little
- >plastic clip broke (under normal usage of course). Since I'm in school and
- >all and can't afford to be without my mac except for "fatal" repairs, I was
- >wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if they new how to fix it
- >of if Apple is aware that the button "clips" are fairly weak?
- >-- Billy@irvine.com
- >
- If you are adept mechanically, you can take your Powerbook apart and
- Krazy glue the broken piece back together. I've done it and it's
- held up extraordinarily well (knock on wood).
-
- The trackball assembly comes out easily and the damage should be
- obvious visually. Of couse, this will void your warranty and may
- cause you to break out in a rash, but ... it does work.
-
- [No warranties, express or implied, are included with the above
- information].
-
- Mark
-