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Hi, I lost one of the plastic feet of the Trackpad. It is unbalanced now and the click won’t work on the side of the missing foot. Thanks, Yaron
You can purchase felt or plastic ‘bumpers’ at most local hardware stores. Buy a size large enough to match or exceed the other foot. You’ll have spares should it happen again. If this Answer is helpful please remember to return and mark it Accepted.
Since the Apple Bluetooth keyboard uses the same rubber feet, but on the keyboard, the feet don’t provide an active function, I decided to take the feet off the Bluetooth keyboard to use on the trackpad. It’s much easier to find a suitable replacement for the rubber feet on the keyboard because you don’t need an exact size, pretty much any thin rubber foot will work. In my case, I just needed one rubber foot for the trackpad, so I took both feet off the bottom of the keyboard and now have a spare if needed sometime in the future. To replace the feet I took off the keyboard, I used some 3M tabs that are adhesive on one side and have a rubbery, non-skid coating on the other. It works great for me. –Admittedly, it would be difficult to find the PERFECT height feet for the keyboard if you keep the keyboard and trackpad side by side. If I used them in a desktop environment and they didn’t line up perfectly, it would drive me crazy, but…I don’t. I use both separately as peripheral devices for my media center (Mac Mini). They don’t have to line up perfectly with each other because I’m usually in the bed when using either one. If I HAD to make them line up, I’d start with some rubber feet that were as close as possible to the original height, but slightly taller, so I could carefully trim them down to the correct size. It wouldn’t be the easiest thing to do, but I don’t believe it would be too much of a pain in the rear either. Anyway, there’s my $0.02. Maybe it will help someone. Good Luck!
They are now available on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/4pcs-set-New-for…
the best thing to do is go into trackpad preferences and add the tap and that disables the click down and u won’t need those stupid feet anymore
Tried and verified. Adhesive rubber feet 8mm x 2.5mm. On ebay for less than 2 pounds sterling for a 5-pack See “Adhesive Rubber Feet Buffer Bumper Stop Cheap Soft Close Black Clear Free post” by proper design seller. # 321526318681. Fits perfectly, and provides a soft, short-travel click. Good luck with it
Please see Replacing Magic Trackpad Rubber. However, if the rubber is lost I don’t know where to buy a new one.
I cut a pencil eraser down to about 2.5mm and glued it in with a very thin layer of glue, making sure that the eraser was glued only to the exposed metal layer. It’s working well now, but I may have to revisit it with a stronger glue now that I’m satisfied with the concept.
I also used a pencil eraser. I did not use glue. I used one square inch of thin carton Sealing Tape to keep the rubber in place. Been working fine for two months now. I found this posting because I was looking for the real rubber replacement ;-)
I was having a similar problem: There was an annoying “click” noise when I was typing, and eventually I deduced it is because there are only TWO feet on the keyboard, and the center is unsupported, so it would bow just a bit under my slightly-aggressive-active style of typing. The simple solution was to use THREE of those hardware store bumpers that I had around, originally included with a picture frame so as not to scuff the wall. Only problem now is that it is ever so slightly higher than the Magic Track Pad buttressed next to it with a cool Magic Wand. Can live with it, but might get around to shaving them a bit later. Who cares…I’m happily typing away; furiously fast, of course!
I had the same problem. I lost one of the rubber bumpers on my track pad. I had a apple blue tooth key board that was not working so I removed the rubber bumpers from the key board. I trimmed away the outer edge of the bumpers so they fit neatly in the holes of the track pad. I attached the bumpers using the 3M adhesive strips that come with the little hooks you hang on your wall. I attached the key board (trimmed down) bumper pad to one side of the adhesive tape, then carefully trimmed away the excess around the bumper pads. Next I pulled the protective paper from the 3M adhesive and made some small minor shaping until it was round and the same size of the bumper pad. I attached the bumper pad to the track pad. I then did the other size so they would be the same. It worked great. No problems at this point.
In system preferences enable ’tap to click’… I like this much better then actually clicking anyway. I haven’t found replacement feet yet :(
Thanks everyone for inexpensive workable solutions. I was about to buy a new track pad because the apple store didnt sell this part. When i went to ace hardware to look at bumpers i ran across small cork bottle stoppers that cost $.20. 20 cents! Easy to shave down with a knife. Glued it on using a single drop of super glue. Works gteat. Saved $68.80!
