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Title: Small normal looking pushbottons??
Post by: shardian on February 27, 2010, 09:59:06 am
I know I have seen someone use these on here before!

Anyways, I am looking for a smaller button that looks like a normal Happ pushbutton. I need to add a button to my pacman cocktail control panels, and a normal sized button will hack off a bunch of pacmans head.

Anyone have a link to these things?
Title: Re: Small normal looking pushbottons??
Post by: javeryh on February 27, 2010, 10:27:49 am
Is this for admin stuff or for repeated use in a game?  If it is for admin THESE BUTTONS (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062508) work pretty good.

(http://rsk.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pRS1C-2160417w345.jpg)

If it for repeated use during game play then 24mm is as small as I've seen (Sanwa, I think) but Happs are around 28mm so they aren't that much smaller...
Title: Re: Small normal looking pushbottons??
Post by: Franco B on February 27, 2010, 10:52:40 am
The smaller Japanese ones availiable are generally Sanwa OSBF-24 (snap in) or OSBN-24 (nut type) or Seimitsu PS-14-D-BK (snap in) or PS-14-DN (nut type).

They require a 24mm hole and have a outer diameter of 27mm.

Standard action buttons (Jap or Happ) have an outer diameter of 33mm so the smaller buttons are about 6mm (1/4") .

Take a look at lizardlick.com. They also have some smaller '18mm and 20mm' buttons but I don't know what they are like for action buttons.
Title: Re: Small normal looking pushbottons??
Post by: :oj on February 27, 2010, 11:24:18 am
Take a look at lizardlick.com. They also have some smaller '18mm and 20mm' buttons but I don't know what they are like for action buttons.

The SDM-18 looks mostly like a Happ standard pushbutton but can't be used as an action button (to much pressure required).

(http://www.arcadeshop.de/images/thumbs_gr/arcade-pb-sdm18-black.jpg)
Title: Re: Small normal looking pushbottons??
Post by: shardian on February 27, 2010, 08:55:04 pm
The smaller Japanese ones availiable are generally Sanwa OSBF-24 (snap in) or OSBN-24 (nut type) or Seimitsu PS-14-D-BK (snap in) or PS-14-DN (nut type).

They require a 24mm hole and have a outer diameter of 27mm.

Standard action buttons (Jap or Happ) have an outer diameter of 33mm so the smaller buttons are about 6mm (1/4") .

Take a look at lizardlick.com. They also have some smaller '18mm and 20mm' buttons but I don't know what they are like for action buttons.

Excellent! These are the ones I was looking for. I see a few people who have modded a 20mm to use a bigger switch meant for gameplay. I might do that.