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Why did Happ mess up the concave buttons?
Ginsu Victim:
Yeah, Terry Shaw is the guy I know that lost his home and arcade.
Terry BELL is Tornado Terry.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 20, 2010, 10:45:58 am ---However, the slop around the plunger can't be fixed. There is still too much slop between the plunger and the barrel. There is about a 3/64" gap around the plunger and barrel fitting. There is virtually no gap on the iL buttons...to the point I see friction marks on the sides of the plunger. On the Happs, you can actually wiggle the plunger around and it feels a bit off for me.
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Hhhmm.....
Please note that I'm not arguing for or against the Happs. I'm just wanting to point something out.
It strikes me that Happ engineered the gap into their buttons for a reason. Happ does not cater to people like us (as evidenced by the difficulty and expense in ordering directly through them), they cater to arcade ops. Arcade ops often place their cabs in some of the worst places imaginable. Pizza parlors, bars, laundromats, and the like. And while pizza grease is an excellent lubricant, soda, beer and buffalo chicken wings are not. No matter how tight fitting the buttons are, crap is still bound to find its way in between causing the button to jam and forcing the op to make a call to clean/replace the stuck button. I would guess making such a gap helps prevent this.
On another note. It also strikes me that it's also an attempt to reduce manufacturing costs as well. I'm not an engineer, but I believe tighter tolerances also equates to greater costs. By relaxing the tolerances and having room for variation, Happ is probably less likely to discard or reject buttons that don't fit within the older, tighter, tolerances.
I'm not supporting for or arguing against anyone here. I'm just thinking Happ is probably killing two birds with one stone.
AndyWarne:
This has been covered before here but Happ buttons changed when they outsourced production to China.
We sell only I-L buttons.
But I have to admit that we are finding Cherry microswitches very difficult to source at the moment so we have had to change to the E-Switch. They do seem OK though when used with the I-L buttons.
Randy is correct though, its very subjective, (as are joysticks) so there is no "answer" as such.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: AndyWarne on April 22, 2010, 05:03:25 am ---This has been covered before here but Happ buttons changed when they outsourced production to China.
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That makes sense. I bet if one were to take a large enough sampling of the Chinese buttons, we would find the variances that justifies a loose fitting.
bradx:
i use old leaf switches
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