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- From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
- Subject: Re: mouse cleaning
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- Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:06:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.221257.981@bitrot.in-berlin.de> thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de (Thomas Driemeyer) writes:
- >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.
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- I've not seen the mechanical mice, but if the ball is rubber, try cleaning
- it with carbon tetrachloride or dry-cleaning fluid. This should remove
- a small amount of the rubber surface and roughen it up a bit.
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- -P.
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