Arcade Buttons not "smoothly" Pressing Down

[obizues]

I've been trying to fix my buttons from feeling like the plunger is getting stuck which sometimes stops the iPac from registering the input or otherwise making the button not smoothly being pushed down.

Imgur Video of Button Push

I do have RGB's attached, but it doesn't look like anything is touching that or preventing a clean push.

Has anyone else had this problem?

[pbj]

Yep.  Take the button apart, wrap medium grit sand paper around button shaft, spin the shaft around.  Reassemble.

[obizues]

Yep.  Take the button apart, wrap medium grit sand paper around button shaft, spin the shaft around.  Reassemble.

Awesome thanks.

Is this a pretty common problem?  It's happened with quite a few of them.  Is it just hitting the plastic inside?

[pbj]

It's happened to me from time to time.

 

[DGP]

It could also be the spring hanging up from being shifted inside or in the case of LED buttons it can be the led housing itself hitting inside if it's crooked.

[obizues]

It could also be the spring hanging up from being shifted inside or in the case of LED buttons it can be the led housing itself hitting inside if it's crooked.

It’s not the LED, I’ve checked. Is there anything you can even do about the spring?

[pbj]

Stretch it out some so it has more resistance. I've done that, too.

[Zebra]

Or replace the buttons with better ones. I found a meaningful difference in button quality / reliability between brand name arcade buttons and the cheap Chinese ones off ebay.