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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: Chris on May 10, 2003, 12:28:05 pm

Title: Shallow buttons?
Post by: Chris on May 10, 2003, 12:28:05 pm

Does anyone know where I can find really shallow buttons?  I need to redesign my control panel to slide out like a drawer, but the flipper buttons on the side of my cabinet are in the way; they stick out a full inch into the CP area.  They're standard Happ buttons.

I was looking at this button as an alternative:

(http://www.happcontrols.com/images/60/601200xx.gif)

but it's not as big as a regular button, so it doesn't look like it'll fit in the same hole...

(http://www.happcontrols.com/images/60/601200xxmd.gif)

Anyone know where a pair of shallow buttons can be had?

--Chris

Title: Re:Shallow buttons?
Post by: anthony691 on May 10, 2003, 01:01:02 pm

How Shallow? The X-Gaming ones are shallower then Happ ones, not by that much though.

Title: Re:Shallow buttons?
Post by: paigeoliver on May 10, 2003, 10:40:08 pm

I have a few really shallow arcade size buttons that I pulled from an early 90s era PC "Arcade joystick". I think I only have like 5 or 6 of them though. Probably not enough for your project.

Title: Re:Shallow buttons?
Post by: Chris on May 10, 2003, 10:48:39 pm

Quote from: paigeoliver on May 10, 2003, 10:40:08 pm

I have a few really shallow arcade size buttons that I pulled from an early 90s era PC "Arcade joystick". I think I only have like 5 or 6 of them though. Probably not enough for your project.

I only need two, preferably blue.  Do they have a switch of some kind?  Are they the same diameter as arcade buttons (mount in 1-1/8" hole)?  How much do you want for two of them?

--Chris

Title: Re:Shallow buttons?
Post by: paigeoliver on May 11, 2003, 03:18:59 am

I have two red ones with black bezels and two blue ones with black bezels. From the top they look like normal arcade buttons except that the button is flat instead of curved inward.

They fit in the same holes as normal arcade buttons. They are only an inch deep, so they will barely even poke out of the wood.

They are not microswitch based, or at least they don't click. The switch part is completely enclosed and the two hook up wires are at the bottom. They work as direct replacements for normal arcade buttons because I used one to replace a sticky button on a game I used to have.

Make an offer with shipping. Might as well take all 4 of them so you have a couple replacements just in case.