Asteroids - Start Buttons or similiar

[Richardgregory]

I am trying to maximize my control panel space and am looking or small "1 and 2 player" start buttons like those used in Asteroids cabs. Are these readily available and where?

I thought of the small happ ones but even those measure 31mm as opposed to regular 33mm. It doesn't save me much space.

Any suggestins? 

[JDFan]

You mean the Atari Volcano (aka Cone) buttons like these :



They are pretty tough to find unless you can come across an Ebay listing and are fairly costly .  Used to have them at RAM Controls but have been OOS for awhile now - ( http://ram-controls.com/order-cones.html )

[welash]

Not the same as the Atari Volcano buttons, but I saw some 16mm lighted buttons at sparkfun that look interesting https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11966  They have them in several colors. Kind of expensive, though.

Another small button, that I think someone used on a project, is http://www.bgmicro.com/normallopenpushbuttonswitch-yellow-2-1.aspx but they would be hard to mount in a wooden control panel.

[PL1]

The Atari "volcano" cone bezels are here, here, and here.

The switch part is a lot harder to find, especially the LED kind.

Someone recently tracked down a part number for a switch assembly that works with these cones IIRC -- search "atari volcano switch" + limit the search time to 1 year and you should find the thread.


Scott

EDIT: Rockyrocket was the one who found the switches in this thread -- reply #3 has several links to other switches at VGP that might work.

Atari P/N 62-039 LED switches are here.

EDIT2: VGP is now doing business as arcadefixit.com.

[Richardgregory]

Thanks for all the leads folks.  I didn't anticipate it would be such a challenge to get these buttons!  Given the situation, I'm thinking I'll just go with a set of illuminated smaller round buttons. 

[JDFan]

Thanks for all the leads folks.  I didn't anticipate it would be such a challenge to get these buttons!  Given the situation, I'm thinking I'll just go with a set of illuminated smaller round buttons.

Yeah - I had thought about using them in my bartop but after seeing the price and the difficulty in sourcing just went with regular buttons as $100+ for 4 buttons was just not justifiable on a bartop that was being build with a spare 15" Monitor, spare computer parts, a $10 encoder and a $50 set of joysticks\buttons!!