I've long since torn off the foam pad and prepped the plastic surface surface, cut and trimmed the leather to size and have been using it unglued. Got around to using some contact cement last week. I know, the cut isn't professional or whatever; but it handles nice. Fullgrain cowhide, veg tan. Recently inspired by other posts about leather grips.

Is it normal for the trackball on my Logitech MX ergo s to feel loose?

Im dead serious, i told them i play titanfall and overwatch with my m570 and they wont stop making fun of me. I think its kinda funny. I just figured somebody else might have the same problem and have some insight for and/or benefit from this thread.

Calling it a "trackball mouse" is like saying "ATM machine" - it's kinda redundant. A trackball and a mouse are both graphical cursor control devices, but a mouse has to be moved while a trackball (which I've heard called a "dead mouse", referring to the old pre-optical ball-based mice) just sits there while you use it. (This also reminds me of an ex-boss who hated the term "pre-drilled holes" -- "It's just a hole, dammit!")

New to this group, and was frankly surprised it existed and thrives. Just curious, why are people here using a trackball over touchpads or mouse? Old habits, looks, or does trackball have some real advantages?

I use one for a few vintage games where being able to send the trackball rolling with inertia in a direction can be beneficial. The heft of the ball and ability to use many fingers can also improve precision. No lifting of the mouse, so in principle faster.

There are many reasons why the mouse won out in the 80s though.

My ageing Huge Wireless (~5 y/o I think) is having some serious issues with dropping connectivity and it's starting to drive me mad. As I've been pretty happy with it (bad the connectivity issues), the Huge Plus was the obvious choice. But then I started combing trough the reviews and now I'm confused.

• New silent buttons are supposedly inferior to the old (possibly subjective opinion, some users seemed happy with them, but they also didn't have experience with the original Huge)

• The roller bearing are supposed to be stiction-free, but are due to some reasons very prone to stiction. And are loud on top of that. My old Huge doesn't actually have any stiction whatsoever.

• The onboard memory is a big selling point except it's not there (yet).

• Almost the only thing that seems universally positive is the 1000Hz polling rate.

All that for low low price of €140 (DOUBLE the price of the regular model). Yet at the end most of the reviews are very fairly positive. I genuinely don't get it. Am I misunderstanding something?

I bought an MX Ergo mouse and just opened it to use it for my PC.

Just one little problem - only the trackball works! The mouse does not point or anything. The buttons work but what happened to the pointing? I just don't understand this at all. I thought it would simply work like any other mouse but boy was I mistaken.

What have I done wrong? The bottom of the mouse has this magnetic attachment and the whole surface of the bottom of that is...rubber?

Rubber. Welp! I won't remove it because I think it is supposed to be there. It won't move on my glass table without feeling like I am rubbing the bottom of my boots on a shiny floor. And the fabric mousepad I had, it moves but requires a bit of effort.

If anyone can help me I'd be happy as a pig in mud but this problem REALLY has me stumped. I still can't believe it.

Trackballs are great if you have a tight space because you don't have to move the trackball in order to move the mouse cursor, you just flick the ball around. This is a neat feature that people often mention and with good reason, however, a mouse set to a high DPI can also be used in a almost similar fashion; you would move the mouse a centimetre and it would move the cursor to your desired position on the screen. So, what exactly do you think is the benefit of keeping a pointing device stationary at all times other than saving space/working in a tight space?

I urge you to share your thoughts

I've been using the Kensington Orbit wireless for 7 months and I've tried Vaseline, then I bought a product called lansinoh PHA 100% Lanoline. In both cases, I applied the lubrication procedure, but it feels sticky or lumpy. So I put a small amount of it on, but the trackball doesn't feel right. Now, how do I remove the lanolin from the 40mm ball and the bearings to start rubbing the ball on my forehead, and what's the procedure? I only use it for playing trackball.

As of today it decided to go south.

For some damn reason it decided that whenever I try to use it it just shuts off and restarts itself in a sec.

I had to reboot my pute to see if that was the issue and NOPE it still does it.

so now I am back to using my logi scratched up trackball.

I already spoke with a few friends and stopped them from ordering one until they are bug free.

So now I have a 170+ dollar paperweight.

Again I say DO NOT BUY til they fix the issues.

My first track back, but I like it, took me about a week to get proficient with it.

I got the IST Pro about 5 months ago and while I like the layout of the mouse its crap bearing design has made it the most frustrating, inconsistent piece of shit I've ever had to use so I really need a replacement for it.

I'm basically looking for a thumb ball mouse that has as little stiction as possible- those are pretty much my only two requirements. Finger balls are not an option.

Also I don't give a fuck about how wet you get over your shitty Elecom trash, fanboys. If it wasn't a piece of shit then I wouldn't need to replace it. Downvoting doesn't somehow magically make my IST Pro stop sucking ass and make me wrong.

When you get to a DPI that is too low, then it just takes too long to get around modern screens. But I find I get better accuracy by clicking on things with a lower DPI and a higher pointer speed setting in the OS that I do with a higher DPI and a lower pointer speed setting in the OS.

Back in the 90s, I wondered what Apple was doing to make the MacOS pointer smoother than Windows 3.1. I read an article that said Apple used a 200 DPI mouse, and Microsoft mice were 300 DPI. Don't know how true that was at the time.

Help . I use Elecom mouse dux50, my mouse scroll wheel stripped thread or something. I want to disassemble it but i cant find any bolts. Can anyone disassemble it. Thank you

Currently using a logitech marble, the one without scroll, and love the ergonomics but hate the bearings

Candidates: Ltrac: great scrollwheel and bearings. Not sure about ergonomics. Seems high, inducing tilted up wrist, which is a big nono. 4.5 cm high

Gameball: no mech bearings, good scroll, good ergonomics from the looks of it.

Ploppy: terrible scroll, great bearings

Slimblade, expert: soso bearings, soso scroll mechanism

What would you pick?

Llevaba mucho tiempo ahorrando para comprar un mouse/ratón de calidad, eficiencia y alto desempeño. Durante más de un año estuve revisando reseñas y calificaciones de los mejores productos y más vendidos, especialmente para diseño y que fuera profesional. Después de muchos "ires y venires", me decidí por el MX ERGO de LOGITECH. Un buen día me fui para la tienda KATRONIX/ALKOSTO, del centro comercial Titán Plaza, que queda en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia. Al llegar al lugar y preguntar a un asesor por dicho producto, me sorprendieron dos cosas: el diseño de este modelo y el precio. Me enamoré a primera vista, aunque el precio que debía pagar era bastante elevado para mis finanzas, sin pensarlo más lo llevé a la caja de pagos, donde por un monto de $599.900 ($599.900 pesos colombianos) me lo pude llevar con la ilusión y la certeza de que sería, sin lugar a dudas, la compra más cara para un producto como este; pero, al mismo, tiempo tendría una herramienta de trabajo para muchos años. Solo ilusiones, a decir verdad.

La felicidad y la plata (como si la hubiera gastado en combustible) se comenzó a acabar a mediados de marzo de este año (2024), cuando el producto de mi vida y por el que me esforcé tanto para adquirirlo comenzó a fallar. Eventualmente comenzaba a hacer "doble clic", a seleccionar de manera descontinúa y a no seleccionar. Después de un tiempo comenzó a ser más regular estas falencias. Comencé a reiniciar el computador, a revisar los "drivers", hasta mandé a formatear y a hacerle mantenimiento general (más platica perdida) al computador para descartar algún tema de virus o fallas físicas. Con la gran sorpresa que al emparejar de nuevo el mouse siguieron las fallas. Hice pruebas en otros equipos con dicho ratón y también seguían las fallas, emparejaba ratones de otras marcas si funcionaban bien en mi computador. Lo que no quería ni pensé que pasara tan pronto ocurrió: el producto por el cual había esperado tanto tiempo y ahorrado comenzaba a presentar fallas con apenas (sí, apenas) dos años de uso. Muchos dirán que dos años de uso, por un producto por el el que pagué un poco más de USD120 (120 dólares) de aquel momento es apenas un tiempo justo de retorno de la "inversión" (fue un gasto); podrían tener razón en pensar que el producto se pagó en esos dos años, solo que descubrí un pequeño detalle que prueba que la vida de este producto era para muchos años más de operación en condiciones de trabajo normales.

Antes de seguir, cabe aclarar que al notar y verificar que las fallas estaban en el mouse, me comuniqué son soporte al cliente de LOGITECH, donde me dieron la siguiente respuesta "After carefully evaluating, I am very sorry to inform you that I tried my best to get you the best solution. I checked the device serial number and I regret to inform you that the product is out of warranty. As there are no official repair centers authorized with Logitech. We really apologize that we will not be able to help you with the replacement further". Sencillamente no lo podía creer: como cliente, confiamos en una marca que simplemente no le importa ni muestra interés por ayudarle a sus consumidores ni darles alguna solución. Después de esta respuesta por parte del fabricante, decidí comunicarme con el comercio donde lo compré (ALKOSTO/KATRONIX), donde me manifestaron que este producto solo tenía un año de garantía, lo cual obviamente ya había pasado. Por esos casi $600.000 tampoco ofrecieron ningún apoyo, soporte técnico ni interés de ser puente con el fabricante (LOGITECH).

Continuando, como les decía, encontré la prueba reina de que este producto estaba diseñado para trabajar mucho tiempo más de dos años. un buen día me dio por destaparlo y a ver si le encontraba algún daño físico o avería, pero resulta que no. Comencé a hacerle pruebas y revisé que los botones de la carcaza de los clics estuvieran bien, sin novedad. Pero al realizar presión directa sobre los interruptores, noté una diferencia en sonido entre el clic izquierdo (no sonaba con la misma intensidad que el derecho) y el clic derecho estaba normal. Al hacer este descubrimiento me pongo en contacto vía correo con LOGITECH y con el fabricante del microinterruptor (otra megasorpresa y desconcierto), pues es nada más y nada menos que ONROM (OMRON Corporation es una empresa japonesa de electrónica con sede en Kioto, fundada en 1933). Hasta ese entonces yo tenía las mejores referencias de ONROM. Resulta que al no tener respuesta por parte del fabricante del ratón ni por parte del fabricante del microinterruptor, decidí destapar el microinterruptor, para ver qué hacía que fallara. Otra gran sorpresa tapada: resulta que (como se ve en una de las fotos adjuntas) este micro fue fabricado en China, para una empresa japonesa de renombre como ONROM. Pero ahí no para todo; —¿recuerda lo del retorno de la "inversión" en dos años?—, pues tomé el parte número (D2FC-F-7N(10M)) del microinterruptor para saber que significaba y lo busqué en Deedseek y en ChatGPT, donde descubrí que este micro estaba diseñado para realizar 10 millones de operaciones mecánicas (clics) en su vida útil. Como si no fuera poco, como se puede observar en la primera imagen, los contactos del microinterruptor están quedamos al igual que la lámina basculante (fenómeno que no debería ser usual en este elemento. Es ahí donde me pregunto, ¿será que en dos años (730 días) alcancé a realizar esa cantidad de millones de clics? ¿Cuántos miles de clics hice por día para que el microinterruptor chino sacara la mano? ¿Cuántos años faltó por ser utilizado este mouse? ¿Por qué ONROM teniendo su fábrica de microinterruptores en Japón, manda a hacer en China? ¿Por qué LOGITECH no usó en el MX ERGO sus propios microinterruptores, cuando SÍ los usa para los mouse de "gaming"?

Muchas preguntas, pero cero respuestas porque a estas empresas solo les interesa vender y no ofrecer un servicio posventa como debería ser.

En lo personal NUNCA volveré a comprar LOGITECH ni producto alguno en las empresas que intervinieron en esta decepción.

Compartí esta historia triste, para que piensen muy bien antes de elegir productos caros de marcas reconocidas.

Never touched a trackball before, but kinda interested

Example: https://www.directindustry.com/industrial-manufacturer/stainless-steel-trackball-148383.html

Bought this mouse and can't seem to actually use it. I was just getting used to my last one (Sanwa brand, ball on side) when it broke, so I got this one. It's supposed to be better, according to Amazon reviews. I've been working with it for a month and it feels strange still.

I move the ball slowly, and my cursor can't make it a fourth across the screen. Too slow. I have to lift my finger like five times to get across the screen.

I move the ball faster, and my cursor ends up in the corner of the screen. Too fast. I gotta move to the edge of the screen and then slow down to get to whatever I'm trying to click. Most times I fly right past it.

I can't seem to find the sweet spot to operate this thing, or if there is one. I use it for gaming and work now, but I'm bad at both, I end up having to jump to the edge of the screen and then readjust. Anyone had this issue with a similar mouse? Help?

lets say there is a tiny index finger‘s tip glove or a button-size device you attach to the to the tip of your index finger which acts like a remote moving the cursor and you just move your index finger around to move the cursor. 👆👨‍💻

It is damn 2025 ( maybe 2026 when you are reading this) and we are still using a whole brick to transfer movement to the digital screen. pathetic 😏😃