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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: AlienInferno on July 20, 2014, 01:03:34 am
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Looking for anyone who might be able to suggest some button / joystick ball combinations. I am wanting yellow buttons and ball tops for my sticks that match in shading. I've seen a lot of different color shades of yellow. Would rather buy once and not have to worry about the colors not matching exactly. Like getting stuck with bright yellow buttons and a kind of dark tinted yellow ball top.
Links would be nice if you know some that might be good. Otherwise maybe a product number or something so I can find it relatively easily.
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Color matching can be tricky unless you are buying butons and balltop from the same manufacturer and/or you can do a side-by-side comparison.
Eds1275 suggested a wiki page like this (http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Color_Matching_Parts) to compile this type of info.
If anyone can do a side-by-side comparison of two or more products (buttons, balltops, battops, t-molding), please tell us your first-hand observations in the thread here (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,140091.0.html).
Let us know what specific products you find that:
* Do color-match
* Almost color-match
* Don't color-match
* Don't color-match, but are complimentary colors (Not certain about this designation, LMK if it's a bad idea. :dunno)
* Match (or don't match) texture/finish
Example:
The yellow IL Compact battop stick color-matches the yellow Goldleaf (http://www.ultimarc.com/goldleaf.html) pushbutton, but has a different (matte) texture.
The yellow Arcade Prime (http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=352&zenid=9cgg5fi7ctfnb8klrf20nvn6n3) pushbutton almost color-matches the yellow IL Compact battop, but is slightly darker and has a different (smooth) texture.
Scott
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The Golden Yellow Hand Candy ball top and Yellow CLASSX buttons are very close. Perfect matching is usually not possible, as the materials used differ between the parts/manufacturers.
It's not even uncommon for two different production lots of the same part, from the same manufacturer, to vary slightly in color.
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The Golden Yellow Hand Candy ball top and Yellow CLASSX buttons are very close. Perfect matching is usually not possible, as the materials used differ between the parts/manufacturers.
How do those compare to your Solar Yellow (http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=75&products_id=223&zenid=oaldk8am2b1lmnk18oveddnpm3) 3/4-inch T-Molding? ;D
I agree that the perfect can be the enemy of the good -- we're just shooting for good data. :cheers:
Scott
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The Golden Yellow Hand Candy ball top and Yellow CLASSX buttons are very close. Perfect matching is usually not possible, as the materials used differ between the parts/manufacturers.
Randy,
I was actually looking at the different products on your site last night and came to the conclusion I was going to order those exact ones.
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It's not even uncommon for two different production lots of the same part, from the same manufacturer, to vary slightly in color.
This is true. I have multiple HAPP buttons that vary in shades of the same color.
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Ugh, try matching black with black. There are so many shades of, well, black.
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How do those compare to your Solar Yellow (http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=75&products_id=223&zenid=oaldk8am2b1lmnk18oveddnpm3) 3/4-inch T-Molding? ;D
I agree that the perfect can be the enemy of the good -- we're just shooting for good data. :cheers:
I'd call it a "good" match. It's a tiny bit lighter, but the hue is pretty consistent with the controls.
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Yellow bothers me big time when it is a "big bird yellow" combined with "Winnie-the-pooh yellow". See that all the time on circuit machines with random old happ buttons mixed in as replacements.
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Thanks for the observations.
Color Matching (http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Color_Matching_Parts) Wiki page updated.
Yellow bothers me big time when it is a "big bird yellow" combined with "Winnie-the-pooh yellow". See that all the time on circuit machines with random old happ buttons mixed in as replacements.
That's why the block at the intersection of Part A and Part C is red. ;D
Scott
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I was pretty happy with the match of the yellow gold leaf pushbuttons from ultimarc and the sanwa yellow ball top lb-35 (mad Katz sf4 tournament series jlf)
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Thanks, Epetti.
Anyone have more observations before I add the Sanwa LB-35?
Scott