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- From: thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de (Thomas Driemeyer)
- Subject: Re: mouse cleaning
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.221257.981@bitrot.in-berlin.de>
- Organization: Thomas Driemeyer, Berlin
- References: <C12zxv.8yq@crow.omni.co.jp>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:12:57 GMT
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- In article <C12zxv.8yq@crow.omni.co.jp> trich@crow.omni.co.jp writes:
- >
- > I found that it really makes a big difference to clean those
- > mechanical mice. You really need to open the whole thing up,
- > which means pulling off the Silicon Graphics Label and removing
- > the screw that is hidden underneath. The steel rollers have
- > some sort rough belt around them which I suppose is meant to
-
- You have a rough section on the rollers? I don't. After almost a year,
- the mouse cannot be moved slowly any more, the ball always slips.
- Cleaning the ball with alcohol didn't help, and neither did cleaning
- the rollers. I had to slip some rubber tubing over the rollers to get
- the mouse to work again.
-
- Anyway, I am glad SGI switched to mechanical mice. (They are really
- mechanical inside, there are no optical pickups.) Those optical mice
- didn't work when the lighting isn't right, if you run them off the pad,
- or if the pad is rotated, covered, or dirty. Most, but not all, people
- I asked agree with me.
-
- Thomas
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