trackball sticking (and what I did)

[arty]

Like other people seem to have had happen, my new ag5 had the trackball
stick in one direction. The cool bit is that I put some WD-40 on the
ends of the rollers and it worked perfectly after that.

[gbe...@gmail.com]

Hi Arty,

what is WD-40?

[ivanwfr]

;-) Unless you are in China, Google gives you about 1,960,000 answer to
that question! (...just kidding)

[dugless]

Are you serious?
I must know what country does not know about WD-40. It is a wonderful
product for all of life's troubles (no, not beer).
I guess you could describe it as the opposite of Duct Tape, only in the
spray can form.

[Matt Westfall]

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Umm, I don't see how that would work though, I mean if you think about
it....

The trackball has to have friction with the rollers in order to track
movement, lol.

Unless your talking about putting it on the shaft the roller is on,
which it would require VERY careful application to avoid getting it on
the actual roller that contacted the ball itself.

Matt Westfall
Owner / Operator
FiftyPounds Internet
http://www.fiftypounds.com

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[art yerkes]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:46:36 -0400
Matt Westfall <erk...@fiftypounds.com> wrote:

> Unless your talking about putting it on the shaft the roller is on,
> which it would require VERY careful application to avoid getting it on
> the actual roller that contacted the ball itself.
>

> > stick in one direction. The cool bit is that I put some WD-40 on the
> > ends of the rollers and it worked perfectly after that.

^^ on the ends, like ... where they contact the plastic holder for the
trackball assembly.

Actually, it doesn't matter too much if you get it on the middle of the
roller. Have some windex and q tips handy and wipe the contact area after
spraying.

I just thought I'd give a note because mine was sticky at first, but some
lubrication did ok.

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