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nickbuol:
romshark, nope.  Looking for the regular buttons like on top of the control panel.

Jimmy, I had already read the Pongo thread, glad that he is back in business again, but didn't know what ever happened to the hot stamped black buttons.  I figured that people were going with Pongo because he offers so many other decals in the package such as for around joysticks, etc.  Those are great since they would have to otherwise be incorporated into the control panel surface, or because the specialty button decals such as 'Esc' and such are pretty rare and I can't see them being a big enough seller to hot stamp.

I guess the coin ones weren't popular enough either since the market would only be MAME type setups or the like.

I thought about asking in the Pongo thread if someone had any "extras" to sell, but didn't want to take away from the good things that Pongo is doing.

mcseforsale:
I'm currently running 2 old Happ clear buttons that I suppose I could put inserts in.  I think they're 5/8ths ID.  I like the black buttons, though.

AJ

PL1:

--- Quote from: nickbuol on July 12, 2012, 12:14:58 pm ---While I know exactly what buttons do what on my cabinet, my wife and kids still seem lost, so I thought that I would replace my 4 plain black "coin insert" buttons on my cabinet with ones that actually say "coin", "credit", ".25" whatever.  Something to designate them as coin buttons.  

--- End quote ---

I printed quarter inserts and used LED buttons, but that would make your coin buttons look different from the others.

Several people in other threads have talked about hot-gluing a quarter to the button plunger, but that seems like it would pry or pop off easily since at .955" it is larger than the plunger (.865") and plunger hole (.897") on a GGG Arcade Prime button.

If you can find a coin/token you like that will fit inside that plunger hole, you can use the spring and plunger from a Paradise LED button(minus the diffuser and cap) with the body from a GGG Arcade Prime as a mounting base. The top of the Paradise LED plunger comes up just barely below the top of the Arcade Prime body.

Just tried this plunger/body combination with a nickle (.837") and a dime. (.703") The nickle fits almost perfectly on top of the plunger and the dime rests nicely in the recess for the diffuser.  Just paint the plunger upper body black and hot glue or gel superglue the coin into place.

Happ also makes 20mm tokens.


NOTE: The plunger (.867") and plunger hole (.900") on Ultimarc's Classic Happ button are almost the same diameter as the Arcade Prime, but the Happs will not work well for this idea due to shorter plunger legs and greater side-to-side play.


Scott

ChadTower:

Print it out on an adhesive clear Avery label, cut out the circle, stick it on.

Mysterioii:
I can't believe nobody in the community has access to a laser engraver (not that I do either...  well technically we have some here at work but I don't have access to them...)  But I would think *somebody* would...  There are plenty of black buttons available, all someone would need to do is engrave a coin symbol (or whatever) into the plunger tops like a quarter of a millimeter deep and apply some white paint in there...   :dunno

Anybody have access to one?  I bet you'd get a few sales...   :lol

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