Jerky Trackball

[owensdj]

I have a Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel(thumb optical trackball) that's getting jerky and queaky. I tried cleaning the 3 contact points for the ball with alcohol, but that made too much friction between the contact points and the ball, resulting in a difficult to move ball. After a few days of use, the ball started moving smooth again, but now it's back to being jerky. Anything I can do to make it stay turning smooth?

 

[ojai00]

Have you tried some other sort of cleaning solution? Sometimes, I just use my nails and just scrape all the stuff off the rollers and give it a spray of compressed air. When you clean the contacts, make sure to also clean the ball...because the ball is what's giving the dirt to the contacts. Hope this helps.

 

[zemel]

Perhaps you "bent" the contact points under the trackball while cleaning it so now the ball isn't sitting right ?

My $.02