From: Doug Parker (dougparker_at_progressdata.com)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 06:21:33 PST
> Jaggies are caused by a deformation (twist) of the
> upper plastic case half. It is especially the right
> long side of the case, which is sort of weaker due
> to the lid mechanism. Its long edge is pressing
> constantly onto the screen and fools the pen digitizer.
> I removed at both jaggied MP2kx the upper case half
> and the jaggies disappeared and reappeared after
> remounting. Then I removed about 0.2mm of the edge
> with a milling machine and cleaned and remounted
> everything and the two Newtons are now cured and
> work fine since that modification. Instead of a
> milling machine a nice scraping tool or a Dremel
> hand engraving machine would probably do as well.
> The bad thing is that one has to take apart EVERYTHING
> of the Newton - I needed about 4 hours for all of my
> experiments and the repair.
>
> --
> With best Regards / Viele Gruesse!
>
> Marco Mailand
Marco,
I field-stripped my Newt two weeks ago and shaved off the underside, right
edge of the cover as Marco mentions above.
My jaggies are GONE.
Does anyone have a Newt with an Exorcist-case of jaggies they'd like to try
to clean up experimentally? Contact me off-list.
Doug
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