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| SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: RayB on October 31, 2005, 01:52:20 pm ---I have one (MC cocktail). I rebuilt the TBs. Definitely not drum. --- End quote --- ok, so it;s the big atari balls that use the drums. |
| Level42:
Thanks gusy, so is it any good ? It's fairly cheap... |
| RayB:
--- Quote from: Level42 on November 04, 2005, 06:01:01 pm ---Thanks gusy, so is it any good ? It's fairly cheap... --- End quote --- How cheap? Do the optics work? Are the bearings and rollers original? A TB that age usually needs new rollers. And perhaps new bearings. If the optics don't work, you'll need new optics. And that yellow ball, how about replacing with a new white one. Congratulations. Your cheap trackball just cost you a fortune and all you're really left with as original is the metal frame. ;D |
| MinerAl:
What Ray said, but there is some hope if the bearings are salvagable and the rollers aren't too badly hour-glass shaped. You can do some reviving of the bearings by soaking them in WD-40 for a good while and working any rust off of them. If the rollers aren't too bad, cleaning all the wd-40 out of the newly de-rusted beearings and lubing them really well with 3-in-1 oil (or your favorite machine lube) will take a rough spinning ball a long way toward smooth operation. Oh, and the ball isn't yellowed, it was never cueball white. They are "cream" colored. Take a look at the rollers, if they aren't too badly concaved then go for it. |
| PacManFan:
I've got one of those too. Get yourself some hex wrenches, and take the entire thing apart, clean it out, get some silicone lubricant for the bearings, and run them with a power drill until you break out all the dirt/dust. My 5" trackball is now the centerpiece of my CP. -PMF |
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