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Xiaou2:

Well, on Mar 9th, I came up with the sliding button idea as well.

 I started to design its functionality... but got distracted and didnt finalize it.

 After drawing up an entire mechanism, I realized one important thing I had overlooked.

 Buttons should be close as possible together.  But if you make a slider out of mere steel or wood.. it will not have the strength to hold up to downward pressure, because the button-hole will make the edges too thin.

 I then came up with a fix, but have not yet drawn it out.  By using a "C" shaped piece of metal (or possible an L ), you can still cut the hole out but still maintain a lot of strength due to the vertical thickness.  Yet, it will still be fairly thin, keeping the buttons close together.

 To hold the thing in place, I was originally going for a pressure latch seen on some cabinet doors.  Strong Neo magnets might be just as good.  Use of a small nub to drag the thing externally... or use of a small hole which you then insert and use a 'key' to drag it.

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Key:

Light Blue = Plexiglass
Pink         = Sliding Black Bezel (covering holes / slots)
Dark Gray = Metal Plate

Shown were two methods:  Over and Under bezel methods.


rapomstage3:

Sweet man. I didn't even think of that.

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