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Desperately looking for light blue pushbuttons
fatfingers:
--- Quote from: JC on September 10, 2008, 04:05:51 pm ---I've heard a lot of concerns about leaf buttons though, e.g. that they are no longer manufactured, that they are a pain to install, and that they require frequent cleaning. How much of that should I be concerned with?
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Based my newbie experience with them, none of it should concern you.
JC:
Bump for additional opinions... Thanks!
Blanka:
If it says they're only for 2-4mm, then just make a sandwich of mdf layers with the top layer being 4mm. Or drill two holes from each side in your wooden panel with a spade drill bit. One the top side you do 4mm with the right size spade bit, the other side you do the rest of the thickness with a 10-15mm larger spade bit.
ToplessZ:
Dont buy those buttons that have the microswitch built in, if the switch goes bad you gotta replace the whole button!
shmokes:
Leaf switches are fine. They're not as maintenance-free as microswitch buttons, but you're not building a machine that will be abused by thousands of strangers in a public arcade, either. For home use, you'll more or less be able to install them and forget about them.