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It looks like it has a sensor and three white "balls" that the trackball sits on.
I do clean those, and they never have gunk built up on them (maybe I clean them too often?), but I only wipe them clean without using isopropyl alcohol or anything like that. Maybe I should try that?
Absolutely use isopropyl alcohol!
Tried with isopropyl alcohol, and it feels worse :( Like rolling a wooden ball on more wood.
Kensington says to use Vaseline to lube the ball. I can only imagine that would gum things up, no?
When reading your post, I started thinking of silicone lubricants. Have you tried anything like that? Ideally, you would only lubricate the parts that come into contact with the ball.
That might be an idea! I'll see if that's safe to do. 👍
I've got a Protoarc EM01 as my daily driver. An EM04 as a spare, but it's not as good :(
So, it looks like this may be a hardware issue with this particular model.
I'm hoping to find an alternative trackball mouse with all of my feature requests, as I don't want to be trying to fix something that wasn't designed to work well.