From: Aaron R. Teitlebaum (arteitle_at_engin.umich.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 12:15:13 EDT
I too had a similar experience buying an old 701C. When I popped the
plastic buttons off to see what was underneath, I found that the little
metal dome/bubble underneath the left button was cracked, presumably from
being clicked so many times. I swapped the two little metal domes between
the left and right buttons and secured them with some tape, and that
helped considerably.
Aaron Teitlebaum
arteitle_at_engin.umich.edu
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> I had the exact same with a 701 I bought on ebay. The keyboard
> was almost pristine, but the left mouse button would register
> only with an Olympic weightlifting-type (weightpushing?)
> effort. A part solution was to reverse the buttons in Win95
> (the main problem had been double-clicking, which you never do
> with the "right" or context button).
>
> I think that this 701 had been owned by an exec who didn't
> type.
>
> >I've got a keyboard with a TrackPoint III in which the left mouse button
> >needs to be pressed about twice as hard as the right button before it
> >responds. I suspect there's a problem with dirt under the button, and I
> >wonder if anyone has any suggestion for cleaning it safely??
> >
> >Edward Mendelson
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