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Title: CST Trackball scroll wheel
Post by: fossala on Thu, 08 March 2012, 08:48:40

I have just got a CST l-track X trackball and the scroll wheel feels slightly stiffer at a certain point in the rotation. Has anybody else noticed this?

Title: CST Trackball scroll wheel
Post by: Glukos on Thu, 08 March 2012, 09:01:43

o2dazone has (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?27162-Lasertrak-maintenance). And I have it still...

Title: CST Trackball scroll wheel
Post by: o2dazone on Thu, 08 March 2012, 09:41:09

Disassembling mine and pushing the wheel away from the disc helped it slightly, but there's still a little drag. Somewhat annoying.

Title: CST Trackball scroll wheel
Post by: fossala on Thu, 08 March 2012, 10:35:33

I will look at it tonight. Other than that it is a great trackball. 10x better than the kensington slimblade.

Title: CST Trackball scroll wheel
Post by: o2dazone on Thu, 08 March 2012, 10:38:34

Really, you feel that way immediately? I'm kind of on the fence. I don't game with my CST, but I feel the scrolling to be a bit smoother on my Slimblade. Button placement is hell on the Slimblade though, so I've mapped bottom left to be mouse 1, and top right to be mouse 2 (Because thats where I press on my CST)

Title: CST Trackball scroll wheel
Post by: fossala on Thu, 08 March 2012, 11:13:07

I find that the trackball tracking is better and after long uses of scrolling with the slimblade it hurts my hand.

Title: CST Trackball scroll wheel
Post by: RPro on Thu, 08 March 2012, 17:49:34

I love the CST for scrolling - but it is terrible for weapon switching, which is why I have some cherry blacks for the 2 extra button inputs.

Title: CST Trackball scroll wheel
Post by: RTbar on Thu, 08 March 2012, 23:07:51

Yeah the slimblade scrolling is killing my hands