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quarterback:


--- Quote from: Kremmit on March 02, 2006, 11:06:11 am ---Mark, do I see a little gap between the inside edge of the cone bezel and the lens?
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I was wondering the same thing, but I think part of it is an optical illusion since the 'core' of the button is more visible than the outer edges.  But if you look at the enlarged pic, it seems like the button pretty much fills the center hole of the cone



Maybe we could get a pic looking straight down onto the top of the button in the cone.

markrvp:

It fills the hole.  There is a white diffuser inside the lens.  What looks like the "gap" is actually solid translucent plastic.

Kremmit:

Sweet!

JoyMonkey:

I got hold of a few NOS switch assemblies today and added some more photos and info on the Cherry switch to the Pushbutton page on the Wiki.

I haven't been talking to my manufacturing contact yet, but I'll see if he could do a small run of cnc'd cones, as well as some cast lenses and switch-holders for the Cherry switches.

Does anyone know the actual thread size of the cones or switch-holders?

VESUVIUS:

Hello all,

I don't know if there are still plans in the works to make the aluminum cone bezels. If there is I came across some cool pictures of different color lenses for the EAO switch That is being looked at as a replacement switch. Newark doesn't have them listed on their web page but I found them listed on Beckwithelectronics.com. The site is mostly text and my browser wouldn't show the images but I digress. I found the pictures on another web page that wasn't in English so I didn't pay attention to the site. Anyways I'm going to try and contact Beckwith Electronics and pick up a couple of switches with different lenses. I still need to find the aluminum cone though. I'll post again once I have everything If any interst is generated.

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