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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Mctittles on January 05, 2007, 08:28:43 pm
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Hello. Does anyone know where I could find (if anywhere) very thin pushbuttons? I would need them to be no more than 3/4", counting the microswitch and wires. I need something that doesn't go below the width of my wood. I'd like it to look like an arcade button but maybe something that is close enough? Thanks.
-Shawn
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There are some short ones at HAPP, but they're that thin.
http://www.westcontrols.com/files/products_parts2.php?id=PP40S&cat=PUSH&type=none
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Those push buttons just look exactly like Sanwa buttons. Those colors sure do look appealing. :)
I thought of those cheesy buttons you find on old cabs, which light up. Check them out on www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk they are a great company to deal with. Click on the arcade buttons link, scroll half way down and don't laugh!
Hope it helps
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Hello. Does anyone know where I could find (if anywhere) very thin pushbuttons? I would need them to be no more than 3/4", counting the microswitch and wires. I need something that doesn't go below the width of my wood.
So, you need the switch to sit inside the hole in a 3/4" piece of wood ... might be tough to secure the button, but I did something similar once with a leaf switch and very short button (was just over 3/4" and wouldn't work for you because of the leaf switch under the panel). I secured the switch with friction from the 'tabs' below the button bezel.
Cheers
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Thanks for the help. I bet somewhere out there is a tiny button but I think I might have another way around this. The button is for the pinball side buttons but I have moveable control panels. What I think might work though, is to take a regular pushbutton and cut it down to fit exactly in 3/4 wood, then glue it back together. Put a smaller spring in it and glue a solid circle to the end for the button instead of a the small tabs. Then on one of the panels have the actual switch embedded into the wood. The solid circle instead of smaller tabs would help line it up because it might not be exact when the panel is in place. Sounds like it could work, although I wonder about glued buttons holding up..
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I remember somebody else having a virtually identical problem at some point... sadly I can't seem to remember the details of his solution nor can I find the original thread.
Sorry.