I've been quietly working on the Coin Reject button labels, and since I was talking to Gamester about it on his thread, I figured I'd post what I was doing on mine. (Since I am borrowing his wife's idea about using vellum that is). I've been playing with various thicknesses of paper, trying to get the labels to look just right. The main problem I'm facing with it is the darkness of the blue in the reject buttons themselves. Unlike the stock Yellow buttons that came with the door, the blue knocks down the light quite a bit more that I anticipated.
Testing began while I was finishing up the cab late last month. Originally I used cardstock, figuring the blue buttons would allow nearly the same amount of light through as the yellow. Unfortunatly, the cardstock proved to thick and knocked the light down too much. I then tried regular office printer paper, but this also seemed to be only sub-par.
Fast forward to Gamester's post about his coin reject buttons and using vellum. His turned out really well, and he's using Red buttons. I happened to have some old vellum sheets still laying around from a previous project and decided to test that route. Seeing as I am also using LEDs for the lights which are a lot brighter than the #161 bulbs originally in the door, I decided to test the labels out as both a single label and a double ply label. Here are the results.
The label itself
The reject button with a single vellum label.
The reject button with a doubled up vellum label.
Though the second one looks ok in the picture, in person you can tell that the extra thickness of the vellum "white" sections is knocking the light down a bit much and you can't really read the word "Only" on the bottom of the label. This being the case, I opted to go with the just a single thickness of Vellum inside each button and here is how they look mounted in the door with all the springs and eclips back in place.
Finished buttons
Somehow I have a feeling that there are still a bunch of little touches that may end up still being tinkered with.... I guess a project is never really finished/