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betson trackball always runs to the left
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: grundle on April 08, 2007, 08:27:21 pm ---Mine tends to pull left when it starts slowing down. I don't thnk there's much you can do about it. I saw an old thread here once discussing it...
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Probably for exactly the same reason..... The oil that is in the bearings when they arrive is way too heavy... Try what I said above and use a vey light machine oil. BUT Not WD40... The trick is to keep them clean. This should be done every three or four months. They also get better as they run in over the first few months of use.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
grundle:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on April 09, 2007, 05:55:19 am ---
--- Quote from: grundle on April 08, 2007, 08:27:21 pm ---Mine tends to pull left when it starts slowing down. I don't thnk there's much you can do about it. I saw an old thread here once discussing it...
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Probably for exactly the same reason..... The oil that is in the bearings when they arrive is way too heavy... Try what I said above and use a vey light machine oil. BUT Not WD40... The trick is to keep them clean. This should be done every three or four months. They also get better as they run in over the first few months of use.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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I'm sure that would help significantly, but just by design it will do this to some extent. You will never get that zero-friction bearing that we all want.
Maybe I'll get around to trying the light weight oil, but every time I get near that trackball, I play 9 holes of Golden Tee and at least 5 games of Shuffleshot. (And sometimes a game or two of World Class Bowling.) This is also why my cabinet is on hold...I only wish Simpsons Bowling ran well on my Athlon XP 1700.
AndyWarne:
The problem is, unless the ball is moving exactly at a 45 degree angle, in the direction of the idler bearing, the surface of the ball is sliding sideways across the surface of the bearing. So there will always be friction in any other direction than 45 degrees. This means the ball tends to favor moving in that direction.
All trackballs suffer from this problem unfortunately.