Thanks. The suggestions from Mathis Groendahl really were helpful and
took care of the problem. I will keep your suggestions just in case
things go bad again.
Pedro.
On 11/3/99 10:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
>>Reading about this problem brings up the opportunity to comment on
>>mine.
>>It seems that the track pad bar on my 2400 is not working as it should.
>>Sometimes I have to press the button either more than once or just very
>>hard in order for it to click-choose; other times when I am selecting a
>>group of icons or dragging an icon(s), I loose them as though I had
>>released the pad button eventhough I had not.
>>
>>Has anyone any explanations for this problem and any suggestions on how
>>to fix it? It is not severe now but I fear it will get worse.
>
>Seufert covered well the possibility of the button pressing too far, but
>there is an equal chance that the button is not pressing far enought. That
>you have to press hard and you lose your selections mid-drag hints that
>maybe you have the same problem I had.
>
>After you pop up the clicker from the bottom edge with something very
>thin, you'll see two pieces of foam and about 4 (or 6?) plastic feet under
>it that act to keep the clicker from traveling too far on the actuator
>bubble thingie <technical term - grin>. At this point you might as well
>check to see if the actuator bubble is dimpled in. If so, the clicker is
>going down too far and the following wont help.
>
>The foam acts as spring to keep the clicker up, so I sliced about 60% of
>it from the bottom edge (if you take too much you can always glue some
>back on). The feet you can attack two ways, either shorten them or shave
>the area they stop against with a very small round bur drill bit.
>
>Try it, can't make it much worse and in my case it got much better, but by
>the time I fixed it I was a confirmed tap-dragger. . . ---------- Duo/2400
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