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Title: Fake coin insert buttons
Post by: retrofuture on May 21, 2009, 04:35:39 pm: Are there any more options than the GGG NovaGenCDR or rigging a coin entry bezel and reject button with a pushbutton/microswitch behind them?

Something that looks realistic and easy to press (I can see a real reject button being a pain after a while)?

NovaGen looks great, but inserts look hard to come by/replace for us in the U.K. (10p lovers as we are), whereas the Happ assembly seems easy to alter.

Any ideas?
Title: Re: Fake coin insert buttons
Post by: Ginsu Victim on May 21, 2009, 04:38:15 pm: Buy the GGG ones and print your own insert. Problem solved.
Title: Re: Fake coin insert buttons
Post by: retrofuture on May 21, 2009, 04:51:37 pm: Quote from: Ginsu Victim on May 21, 2009, 04:38:15 pm
Buy the GGG ones and print your own insert. Problem solved.

How easily do they come apart?
Title: Re: Fake coin insert buttons
Post by: Ginsu Victim on May 21, 2009, 04:59:19 pm: Just looking at the way they are constructed, probably quite easily.
Title: Re: Fake coin insert buttons
Post by: mimic on May 21, 2009, 06:29:01 pm: Quote from: retrofuture on May 21, 2009, 04:51:37 pm

How easily do they come apart?

Easy and not at the same time. The one I've got graphics seem to be on sticker and not on a loose piece of paper. I'm not gonna pull off though to make sure. Other than that I like it a lot. Once powered they give very nice bright light.
Title: Re: Fake coin insert buttons
Post by: Kevin Mullins on May 21, 2009, 06:33:15 pm: Quote from: mimic on May 21, 2009, 06:29:01 pm
Quote from: retrofuture on May 21, 2009, 04:51:37 pm

How easily do they come apart?

Easy and not at the same time. The one I've got graphics seem to be on sticker and not on a loose piece of paper. I'm not gonna pull off though to make sure. Other than that I like it a lot. Once powered they give very nice bright light.

You didn't mention what kind of button you are referring to.

The GGG buttons look like standard rectangular button with an insert that looks like a coin slot.
http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/5400045x.htm
Different colors are available obviously. (red, white, blue, green, yellow, amber)

Keep in mind these look to be installed just like any other button, not directly in a coin door without some modification to the door itself I'm sure. (removing coin mech assemblies, etc)

As for the inserts themselves...... I just make my own anymore.
Can modify them to say whatever you want.
To replace them is easy, either the cap pops right off, there are two tabs to release the top, or there is a simple lot to slide them in, all depend on the type of button/coin button you have.
Title: Re: Fake coin insert buttons
Post by: mimic on May 21, 2009, 06:40:53 pm: I thought that's what we talking about the rectangular ones with the preprinted graphics. http://tinyurl.com/pawy8c
Title: Re: Fake coin insert buttons
Post by: RandyT on May 22, 2009, 03:26:06 am: I meant to reply to the other thread, but it slipped my mind.

If anyone would rather have the NovaGem CDR Buttons blank so they can print something of their own to put inside, I can supply them without the graphic. Just state that you want it blank in the comments section at checkout time and that's how you'll get them ;)

Randy
Title: Re: Fake coin insert buttons
Post by: garnerb350 on May 22, 2009, 08:15:47 am: I bought the CDRs from RandyT...It was the best move i ever made....My friends still compliment me on those buttons everytime they see them....