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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: Level42 on January 03, 2008, 07:20:25 pm

Title: Strange button(holders) leaf & microswitch...
Post by: Level42 on January 03, 2008, 07:20:25 pm
Anyone ever seen these ?

Look interesting !
Title: Re: Strange button(holders) leaf & microswitch...
Post by: Level42 on January 04, 2008, 07:00:09 am
OK, I guess you all think: So what ?

Personaly, I don't care much for the microswitch version because.....they're microswitches of course.....

But that leaf holder looks like it will fit directly under a metal CP without any need for spacers like this:
(http://homearcade.org/BBBB/metalbut.jpg)
etc. Very nice because the original "thick" leaf button holders are almost extinct:
(http://homearcade.org/BBBB/metalcp.jpg)
These were used in games like Centipede etc.

More info about all that here:
http://homearcade.org/BBBB/leafsw.html

I will order some of both the MS and leaf versions to play around with them...
Title: Re: Strange button(holders) leaf & microswitch...
Post by: whammoed on January 04, 2008, 07:36:36 am
Oh...someone is still making these?  That is interesting...who?
Title: Re: Strange button(holders) leaf & microswitch...
Post by: Level42 on January 04, 2008, 08:15:20 am
No idea. I found them here in Europe. I'm checking things now on availability, price etc.

(I'm talking about the black button holders like pictured in the first post, just to be clear :)
Title: Re: Strange button(holders) leaf & microswitch...
Post by: Level42 on January 06, 2008, 04:33:48 pm
OK, the source I found them has a very limited supply left of them. It's a company getting out of the arcade business.

There are 39 black and 1 yellow button. This is the leaf switches. I will also ask about the MS version.

Anyone else interested in these ? Not planning on making money on them, just covering costs and helping out...

I got a price on them, but he's now figuring out what shipping costs will be, gotta add that of course.