- Microsoft Trackball Explorer Repair Kit
- Microsoft Trackball Explorer Repair Tool
- Microsoft Mouse Trackball
There's been one trackball in particular that has served me well over the years, and it's the Microsoft Trackball Optical Explorer, known affectionately among it's cult following simply as the MTE. It's an optical 5-button trackball, long since discontinued. For what it's worth, there is a company called GameBall running a campaign to produce the most similar design I have seen. They list OS X. Only a prototype exists at the moment. If you are like me and have the fooling Microsoft Trackball Explorer, Logitech track ball or Kensington Turbo Ring pointing devises, you will undoubtedly find that after some time in the Microsoft Trackball Explorer, and Logitech track ball FX the 3 small bearings will get flat spots and the big ball starts to stick, Plashing helps but not for long.
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- Re: worn bearing for trackball. Just push out the bearings and rotate before pushing them back in. Push out from behind with a bradawl or similar shaped small pointed tool. Do this as many times as you need to renew the surfaces and restore this fantastic mouse to full functionallity.
- I heartily agree with everyone here, please Microsoft, start production of the Trackball Explorer (TBE) again! I have been doing extensive research for years now on ergonomically correct mice/trackballs and the TBE is the only one that was designed right and it was an accurate, precise trackball too.
- The Microsoft Trackball Optical, shown in Figure 13-8, illustrates the second style of trackball, in which the index finger operates the mouse wheel and buttons and the thumb operates the trackball. Some people adapt quickly to either type of trackball; others find one or the other type intolerable.
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Microsoft Trackball Explorer Repair Kit
So I have been searching for something like this for years now out of paranoia that my old MTE would die on me before I was capable of letting it go. Then I ran across the ELECOM M-DT2URBK Wired Trackball today and it sent shivers down my spine. (It is also available in wireless if that is your preference)
Microsoft Trackball Explorer Repair Tool
At first glance it appears to be the closest thing to my favorite old Intellipoint mouse that I have ever seen. And it's only 32.00 on amazon! The only knock I have seen on it is that it is a bit smaller, but hell, for 32 bones I am willing to give it a try!
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