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shawnzilla:

I'm considering translucent buttons for my cp, but I'm not real familiar with leaf-style and had a few questions...

1) I assume that I would need the "long" style of leaf button, since I'm making a wood cp. Is that correct?

2) Where can I get long-translucent leaf-style pushbuttons? I am assuming that there aren't good looking microswitch translucent pushbuttons.


paigeoliver:

1. That is correct, and you can't use plexi.

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Kremmit:

Can't use plexi?  If you're just thinking about the thickness being too much, why couldn't he use thin plexi, like 1/8" or even 1/16", or rout the underside of the wood a bit?  

Or are you thinking he's backlighting, and the light would shine out through the plexi?  I was considering doing this, and was concerned about the same thing.  Best solution I have thought of is to paint the inner edge of the button holes black, plus a thin strip of black on the top, around the circumference of the hole, to shield under the lip of the button assembly.

Or is there some other issue I haven't thought of?

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paigeoliver:


--- Quote from: Kremmit on August 23, 2004, 12:27:52 am ---Can't use plexi?  If you're just thinking about the thickness being too much, why couldn't he use thin plexi, like 1/8" or even 1/16", or rout the underside of the wood a bit?  

Or are you thinking he's backlighting, and the light would shine out through the plexi?  I was considering doing this, and was concerned about the same thing.  Best solution I have thought of is to paint the inner edge of the button holes black, plus a thin strip of black on the top, around the circumference of the hole, to shield under the lip of the button assembly.

Or is there some other issue I haven't thought of?

--- End quote ---

Both for reasons of thickness and of lighting.

But if you spring for lit up translucent buttons then you can get away with a generic overlay. You don't NEED plexi if you use a real overlay (a real one, one that didn't come off a large format inkjet printer).

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