Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: nomad on April 21, 2004, 07:03:46 pm
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For my metal control panel, I would like to have some translucent leaf buttons. However, I have seen that only "short" leaf buttons mount easily to a metal cp. I would like to use some colors the come only in the long variant. On Bob Roberts' site, I noticed that he says that one can mount "long" buttons using spacers. I am just wondering where you could obtain the spacers or if you could make them out of pvc piping or something?
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Evidently, certain suppliers provide spacers, but mine did not.
I was using short buttons on wood and only needed to use washers as a spacer. For you, PVC would work well.
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Thanks. I have another question too. On Wico's site there are two different leaf holders. One has tungston thing on the switch and the other has some other material. Does it make a difference which holder I purchase?
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You aren't really going to wear out any new leaf switches in home use, so even the cheaper ones should be fine. Heck, I regularly install 20+ year old ones in games, and even those are fine.
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Thanks for the advice :), but I have one more n00b question for your guys. For leaf buttons, I noticed that you must have the button holder assembly, leaf switch, button, and a pal nut. On Wico's site however, there is this item called a distance washer. Is that thing just a spacer so that one could put long buttons in a metal cp, or does it serve some other function?
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I'm not sure what that is. As a spacer it is pretty thin. If I had a metal panel I would have needed about 5 of those per button.