Non-Standard Push Buttons

[Hoagie_one]

Is there any place to get iether the really tiny glowing atari buttons oro maybe a big light up button?

In general i just want a few different sized buttons for special functions on my CP.

Any links?

Thanks

[anthony691]

Is there any place to get iether the really tiny glowing atari buttons oro maybe a big light up button?

In general i just want a few different sized buttons for special functions on my CP.

Any links?

Thanks

Happ has large lightup pushbuttons... what is wrong with these?

[rampy]

Is there any place to get iether the really tiny glowing atari buttons oro maybe a big light up button?

In general i just want a few different sized buttons for special functions on my CP.

Any links?

Thanks

The atari cone/volcano buttons (both lightup and non lightup varients) are notoriously expensive for switches 20 bucks a pair (and even then they might now work or just be the volcano and no switch)...  and they are getting harder to find as they arne't made anymore and only use ones and NOS are left.

Rampy

[Hoagie_one]

those are fine, but i was rally interested in those old pyramid lights on the old atari cabs.  Dont know what they are called

[SirPeale]

The atari cone/volcano buttons (both lightup and non lightup varients) are notoriously expensive for switches 20 bucks a pair (and even then they might now work or just be the volcano and no switch)...  and they are getting harder to find as they arne't made anymore and only use ones and NOS are left.

I wonder how much it would cost to manufacture some new ones.  Not exactly, per se, but ones that would fit in to the old holes.

[Hoagie_one]

i bet if the demand was high enough, someone would make a fake one

[anthony691]

hmm... I remember someone saying it would cost too much..

[Hoagie_one]

why cost too much.  you get a die stamp place to stamp the cones.  Get a little spring, a microswitch with a pole leading tot he top where we have a little plastic led with a wire running down the middle of the already tiny pole, around the switch so not interfere with the switch mech and then wired complicatedly to the computer.

It would be cheap, $60-$70 each at the most

lol

[rampy]

I believe someone in RGVAC (kevin from k&s ?) thought he could get the volcano cone part manufactured for 10 beans, but you still need to find the glowing pushbutton part...

*shrug*

Rampy

[SirPeale]

I believe someone in RGVAC (kevin from k&s ?) thought he could get the volcano cone part manufactured for 10 beans, but you still need to find the glowing pushbutton part...

Was the original an LED or an incandescant light?

[anthony691]

I believe someone in RGVAC (kevin from k&s ?) thought he could get the volcano cone part manufactured for 10 beans, but you still need to find the glowing pushbutton part...

Was the original an LED or an incandescant light?

I don't know, but I would doubt it is a LED.

[Wienerdog]

I believe someone in RGVAC (kevin from k&s ?) thought he could get the volcano cone part manufactured for 10 beans, but you still need to find the glowing pushbutton part...

*shrug*

Rampy

I seem to remember that post, but there was some problem.  I think it was the die setup cost.  Something like 5 or 10k.  You have to sell many buttons to cover that...

[GearHead]

The Atari start button was made by Cherry Switch and has an LED.  The cones for these and the non-lighted version are the real problem.  A few people have investigated repoducing them and the mold and production costs they were quoted were extremely high.  

I emailed Kevin at K&S Amusements about his repro cones and haven't gotten any response yet.  No word in the newsgroups either.