The scroll ball on my mouse quit working in the down direction. Works fine in the other three ways. Can it be fixed?

The scroll ball on my mouse quit working in the down direction. Works fine in the other three ways. Can it be fixed?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Nov 28, 2013 11:33 AM

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Nov 28, 2013 11:53 AM in response to Kure Day

Long time since I used a roller ball mouse, but I seem to remember that I could take the ball out on the one I had and get amongst it and clear out all the rubbish that gets trapped.

If you can't get the ball out, running the mouse up and down over sellotape in various directions was another way of clearing out any bits clogging the mechanism. Move the roller ball on to clean bits of the sellotape so that any rubbish doesn't find its way back inside.

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The scroll ball on my mouse quit working in the down direction. Works fine in the other three ways. Can it be fixed?

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