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Help finding cool buttons and switches.
spiffyshoes:
You know you want one. ;D
http://livedoorshop.depart.livedoor.com/item_detail?id=346274
BioFreak:
OH MY GOD!!!!!
That is exactly what I was thinking of, maybe a few more buttons but that's the one.
Oh what cruel fate that these aren't available in the US and that I can't read any of it.
If I could just find a flip top button cas,e like the one in the middle, then I could just build the case. That's really what I haven't been able to find, that silly little flip up case. I'm actually thinking maybe something from a craft store could be modified to do this. They must have some kind of silly little plastic box that a button would fit in, right?
SeanCyrusTowel:
that is really AWESOME..... someone needs to find those in the US
Flinkly:
you know that switch box with the 6 buttons? about a week ago, i could've gotten about twenty free buttons, including all of those styles.
during the summer i work for wayerhauser and we've got a "boneyard" that's full of old equipment and various control panels, all populated with those same kinds of buttons...but i fear that i'll never work there again.
BioFreak:
--- Quote from: Flinkly on September 24, 2005, 01:24:16 am ---you know that switch box with the 6 buttons? about a week ago, i could've gotten about twenty free buttons, including all of those styles.
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Aaaaaagh Noooooo! :o
Rule number one when in a work environment,
take anything they are willing to give you for free, anything.
You'll end up either finding a use for it, or someone you know will find a use for it. Scavenge and pillage when ever it's an option. I'm not saying you steal stuff from work, but if they are willing to let you take it, then it's game on.
The place I worked for was a software company that ditched computers after 2 or three years, over the 7 years I was there I had at least 10 different computers at home and currently have three PCs 2 with 21" CRTs and one with a nice 17 flat panel LCD. All with over gig of memory all for free cause they moved on an bought the next model.
If the company has, what we called "yard sales" or a "boneyard" back up the truck and fill it up, you can always throw stuff away after a time if your really not going to use it, but you can never get that stuff for free again once it's gone, or you are. :-)
So ends the lesson grasshopper...
Hahahaha...