DevTerm: Replacing the trackball

[thwill]

@Rex, I haven’t done it yet (I’d quite like to enjoy it for a while before I screw it up ), but you apparently do have to unscrew the lot:

Mouse ball got stuck in 1 direction, cleaning was not convenient

I had a situation that the mouse ball worked in 3 directions: left, right, down, but not up. When moving finger up, the ball did not rotate under finger. So I could only use external mouse. I wanted to fix this. First I had to open the deveterm and take out the keyboard. Then unscrew all 23 (if I counted correctly) screws on the keyboard. To remove the PCB. Then the mechanical part of the mouse device was finally free. I took it out. Top plastic part and bottom plastic part held together…

When I do so I intend to take photos and post them here for posterity.

Best wishes,

Tom