I'll just leave this here . . . .

[JcProAm]

http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/ISW-4/PUSH-SWITCH-ASSEMBLY//1.html

Pretty awesome not going to lie!!!!  if we get a thousand of us in on this we can get them for 10c each   

[ark_ader]

Why? 

[SavannahLion]

Why? 

I guess there are still dorks out there that still think it's cool to butcher an NES and do a ---smurfy--- job stuffing a PC inside of it. Maybe this is just one step towards minimizing the douchery of the hack?

[The Habbler]

Playchoice 10 bartop with 2 7" usb monitors. I don't know where the NES buttons come into play, but it can be built.

[HanoiBoi]

 I'm not up on this...what would it be used for?   :afro:And is the OP really trying to get 1000 people interested rather than spending $1.00?   

[JcProAm]

I was being sarcastic about the 1000 people i just thought it was funny they had this for sale.  and i have seen people use this to resurrect an old nes into a htpc stuffing a ipx mobo into it. 

[DaveMMR]

I was being sarcastic about the 1000 people i just thought it was funny they had this for sale.  and i have seen people use this to resurrect an old nes into a htpc stuffing a ipx mobo into it. 

Heh, I'd rather it remain an NES - but to each his own.  Though I do wonder when that day will come we'll start coming down on people butchering the NES because the number of working and/or easily fixable ones are dwindling. It's still a ways off - I see NES's floating around almost every other week.  And their insides can be reincarnated into something awesome like this:

http://www.stupidfingers.com/projects/nintoaster/

[JcProAm]

My NES from my childhood died a few years ago but all it need was a new 72 pin connector and i got a gold plated one off ebay for $12  shipped i think.  It now better than when i first got it.  I played my dads atari before they got me an NES but that is where i first fell in love with video games.  Yeah I'm young i know.

[DaveMMR]

I played my dads atari before they got me an NES but that is where i first fell in love with video games.  Yeah I'm young i know.

If you cut your gaming teeth on an NES when it was current, you're not as young as you think.     But I think there were some members on here who remember video games the first time it was a fad (pre-1983) and arcades were almost everywhere - so you're not as old as I'm accidentally implying either.

[Vigo]

Sweet Deal! 

I just bought 100 for $22.00 shipped.

As a guy you likes to tinker and build stuff. I appreciate cheap components like these switches, even if it is not arcade microswitch caliber. Each assembly comes with 2 switches, so I just bought 200 single pole switches for $22, and the On/Off locking switches for the power button can be changed to momentary switches (according to user reviews).

Cheap cheap cheap!

Thanks, JcProAm! I appreciate the link.

[JcProAm]

No Problem    I have been scouring the interwebs looking for cheap electronic parts as i am trying to build homemade recoil light guns.  so far have sourced the solenoids, transistors, resistors, diodes, and power supplies.  So trying to pass along any good deals i have found.  all i have to figure out now is the weight and stop for the end of the solenoid.  I threw up a little when i found out how much namco wanted for their recoil unit off their website.   found some really nice pull type solenoids on electronics goldmine $1.49 each so bought 10 in case i burned up a few in the protoyping process.  Plus for future tinkering projects. 


Has anyone put together a list of online electronics surplus stores in the form of a sticky or in the wiki?  i.e. allelectronics.com
As half the fun of building an arcade cabinet is tinkering and making it fun and your own.

[alfonzotan]

http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/ISW-4/PUSH-SWITCH-ASSEMBLY//1.html

Pretty awesome not going to lie!!!!  if we get a thousand of us in on this we can get them for 10c each   

I could give a crap about NES (damn kids... Atari still rules), but that'd be very nice for cabs with a bare motherboard as opposed to a PC in a case.  One of the drawbacks there is having to work up power and reset buttons for the computer.  Tack one of these up (say) just inside your coin door, and you're in business.