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Author Topic: Sanwa/Seimitsu Buttons - Snap vs. Nut  (Read 3178 times)

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Kolhell

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Sanwa/Seimitsu Buttons - Snap vs. Nut
« on: October 30, 2012, 04:20:23 pm »
I'm finally building my first stick, but I'm having trouble deciding whether to use the snap-in buttons or the screw-ins.  I would greatly prefer to use the snap-in ones for the sake of simplicity and the fact that they have a slightly smaller profile, but I don't really trust them to be as secure and it would get on my nerves if they rattled around.  Has anyone had any personal experience constructing sticks with the snap-in buttons manufactured by either company?

I currently intend for the face of my stick to be a layer of .093in acrylic on top of .375in plywood with a Seimitsu LS-32 (LS-36 mod) mounted to the bottom of the plywood via their S-bracket, and I would like to snap the buttons directly into the .093in acrylic.  Slagcoin says Sanwa snap-ins work with 2mm-4mm panel thicknesses and Seimitsus with 1mm-3mm so theoretically .093in (2.4mm) should be perfect for either, but I have trouble trusting a mechanism that I haven't seen first-hand.  The other options are either countersinking the nuts into the plywood, which would suck to do, or having the nuts show through from the top, which would suck to look at.

So what would you recommend doing?  Please feel free to insult my choices of parts or construction methods in the process: if you have a better way of doing things I would love the opportunity to learn from you.



edit: WHUPS misplaced a decimal point.
« Last Edit: November 02, 2012, 05:14:24 am by Kolhell »