ins_bjjb@jhunix.UUCP (09/24/87)
I've just started noticing that my mouse isn't working correctly.
It doesn't go in straight lines anymore . . .
Opening it up, I see fuzz all over the rollers. How do I clean this
stuff off without damaging the thing? I looked in the user's guide and all
it describes is cleaning the mouse ball itself (all those crushed bacteria,
you know 8-( ).
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Jared J. Brennan
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"Love is a dog from Hell."edrury@percival.UUCP (09/27/87)
I don't know how proper it is , but I have always used a little
alcohol on a cotton swab to clean of the little metal rollers in
side the mouse to get mine rolling along better. I have been doing
this for a couple of years without any bad effects.
Ed
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****************************************************************************pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (09/28/87)
I scrape them off with my thumbnail, pushing the junk to the side so the roller does not just roll, and the blow the junk out.
Friesen@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA (10/05/87)
When I purchased my Atari the "official certified service person" told me to clean the mouse by dipping a cotton swab in rubbing alchohol and rubbing the rollers with a few of these until they are clean. That's how I have been cleaning my mouse and it works great. Aric Friesen "My vision is impaired! My vision is impaired!"