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Plans to fabricate Atari volcano buttons?
Kremmit:
Were you trying to make just cones, or complete buttons? Did you have a look at my idea posted here?
Tailgunner:
Buttons or cones? I posted dimensioned plans for both short and tall volcano cones in this thread a while back.
JoyMonkey:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on September 04, 2005, 12:50:26 am ---Were you trying to make just cones, or complete buttons? Did you have a look at my idea posted here?
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Complete buttons. I've got a few ideas that I'll try out next week, hopefully something useful will come of it.
I'm going to see if I can get my hands on a small sheet of transparent red acrylic and machine the 'nipples' out of that. I know that I've got clear acrylic, but red is a little harder to find.
I'm going to machine the cones out of aluminum, although I don't think I have a v-bit with the correct angle.
I'll call a few distributers and see if I can get some samples of pushbuttons with LEDs. Looks like Elma make some that would work.
Santoro:
I'd buy a few full buttons.
SirPeale:
The volcano buttons are quite a simple device, but without the molds to make new parts, they'll have to be made by hand.
The parts are:
[*]the microswitch (still made by Cherry)
[*]the lens cap
[*]a brace that holds them all together.
And that doesn't take into account the LED assembly. And I didn't count the cone since that *is* being made by several people.
A couple years ago I asked Cherry if they'd consider making the button assembly again. They get at least two calls like mine a week. For $25,000 they'll consider it. That's how much it would cost to get new dies made.
So if you can machine some new dies, go for it!