Re: Looking for old Mac SE-style mouse

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Quadrajet1 <quadrajet1@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >>
> >>   Try and get one with the gray ball.  It's is nothing more than a
rubber
> >> coated ball of lead.
> >
> >I think it's steel, lead would be too soft... but anyway, here's a mail
> >order source of stuff like that, and a lot more:
>
> Sure it's lead.  Take one apart and see for yourself.  No reason why lead
won't
> work.  It's coated, and it rolls around a 1 foot square piece of mouse
pad.
> It's not like it has to be bulletproof, it's not to be used for a weapon
or
> anything.

Maybe you're right, a magnet doesn't stick to it, though it does stick to a
PC mouse ball I tried. I don't want to sacrifice an Apple mouse to find
investigate further, though.
I've dropped mouse balls on the floor various times, with lead I think you'd
be risking denting it. Then there is the toxic aspect... maybe it's zinc!
-Paul