Man 18mm is tiny.
I have 24mm ones for admin. I mocked up a panel to try them as the main buttons.
It felt fine for one or two button games. I'm sure it would be fine for a game that occasionally uses the third.
On fighters, it felt like typing on a keyboard.
I've never had a sdm-18, but from the pictures it doesn't look like it uses they same type of switch as the 24 & 33mm buttons.
That concerns me. Might just have to order one and see what the action is like.
If it feels like a momentary pushbutton from radioshack, it's not going to work very well as an arcade button.