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| Buddabing:
I had a thought today. I took a button apart and there are four pieces. Two of them are the spring and the lock nut. For lack of better, more accurate words, I'll call the other two pieces the "housing" and the "plunger". The plunger is the piece of the button that moves when you press it, and the microswitch and nut attach to the housing. My thought was this. Wouldn't it be easier to get an injection mold company to make duplicates of just the plungers? After all, most of the housing is below the surface of the panel. That way, there would be just one simple piece to reproduce. The downside is that the ring of plastic surrounding the plunger would still be visible. It would be okay if it was black or roughly the same color as the plunger, but we wouldn't want a mishmash of colors. This also lends itself well to people wanting to retrofit their panels with lit buttons without the cost of all new buttons. There is an injection molding company,Globecorp, just a few miles from my house. I wonder if they would do just the plungers and what they would charge for a small run of a few thousand. |
| shawnzilla:
I went to the source of the buttons and they are producing them for me. Right now, I'm waiting on a sample set from them (they're working hard to match the color samples that I sent). As always, I'll keep everyone posted on the progress. I hope to have pics for everyone very soon! --- Quote from: Buddabing on March 03, 2005, 08:01:06 pm ---I had a thought today. I took a button apart and there are four pieces. Two of them are the spring and the lock nut. For lack of better, more accurate words, I'll call the other two pieces the "housing" and the "plunger". The plunger is the piece of the button that moves when you press it, and the microswitch and nut attach to the housing. My thought was this. Wouldn't it be easier to get an injection mold company to make duplicates of just the plungers? After all, most of the housing is below the surface of the panel. That way, there would be just one simple piece to reproduce. The downside is that the ring of plastic surrounding the plunger would still be visible. It would be okay if it was black or roughly the same color as the plunger, but we wouldn't want a mishmash of colors. This also lends itself well to people wanting to retrofit their panels with lit buttons without the cost of all new buttons. There is an injection molding company,Globecorp, just a few miles from my house. I wonder if they would do just the plungers and what they would charge for a small run of a few thousand. --- End quote --- |
| SOAPboy:
black smoke.. White frost.. True Blue.. |
| mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: SOAPboy on March 03, 2005, 09:13:27 pm ---black smoke.. White frost.. True Blue.. --- End quote --- lol. A little late don't you think? mrC |
| Fat_Trucker:
Definitely. Blue, black, white. |
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