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Chris:

How about rectangular red illuminated buttons mounted where coin slots would be?  Then you could put a 25 cent insert in them, and they'll look slightly coin door-ish.

Happ also makes a "fake" coin door; I'll bet the fake coin rejects on those could be rigged with microswitches.

Avery:


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I like Chris' rectangular button idea.  If you place them righ, when you do pick up a real coin door, the holes you drilled for the buttons will go away with the chunk you cut out to mount your coin door in.

Also, check e-bay - I've seen a mess of coin doors go for less than 10 bucks.

Chris:

By the way, Happ's "fake" coin door is at http://www.happcontrols.com/pc/accessories/40071300.htm , although it probably costs more than most coin doors on eBay.



Chris:

Here's a realtively cheap lighted button:

http://www.happcontrols.com/wp/item_search.p?ITEM-NO=54L-0004-510P10Z



rgecko:

The Happs door would be fairly easy to rig up as buttons.  I have one in my cab, when you push the coin reject button, there is a metal shaft that goes back, you'd just have to come up with something to mount a cherry switch there.  Although I ended up with the coin insert buttons next to the player select button on my CP.  reason being I use the coin in button as Select, and player button as Start for NES/SNES games.  Also they are black the same as my CP base so they don't stand out a whole lot.
Making your CP swapable also isn't too hard, a couple of CP clamps from Happs install nice and easy, and using the Ultimarc stuff means it's just a usb/ps2 cable the needs to be unplugged from the computer at least if you use the CP clamps if down the road you'll have the option of making other CPs... I'm already thinking of a driving CP.

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