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PacManess:
Ok, I have an idea...tell me if this would work or if this would be a really really bad idea.
Instead of crimping quick discos to wires and connecting them directly onto the switches, what if I stripped about an inch of wire, wrapped it around the switch, and then used electrical tape to bind it all together? Would this work? Or is it a lazy man's impossible dream?

Speaking of dreams, I had one the other night where I was watching Animal House, and at the end of movie, Belushi's character moved to Japan and was on a game show where the contestants would be in these see thru plexiglass booths that had air holes in them. Then, a fat guy with a HUGE hand would push a meat thru the air holes into the mouth of the person inside. And, if that person could guess what it was, they'd get points. If not, they'd have to eat their own body weight in it.
Anyway, Belushi won the game, and the other guy had to commit Hari Kari (for the dishonor of losing). When he fell on his sword a fountain of blood spewed forth, more than Johnny Depp's Nightmare on Elm Street Death. Good times.
Ok, anyway, yeah.
Any ideas?

Snarbald:
Sounds like more work than the quick disconnects to me?

TalkingOctopus:
It would probably work OK.  However, eventually they may get loose, giving you a bad connection.  QD's are really easy to apply.  I'd get some and do your wiring the right way.

mahuti:
Well, it's a tossup between tape and diconnects, but I think the disconects would be easier as well. ANd they will DEFINITELY be easier to fix, adjust. When one of your connectons comes undone under the tape, it will be much more difficult to identifity the problem causing connection. You also won't be able to switch buttons as easily. (In my case, I swapped some button connections for a Joystick)

PacManess:
Well, the problem I had with QDs are this...

1) They didnt' always stay. I'd make what I thought was a good crimp, but then the wire would still slip out. Might just be that I was using a crimper bought at the "Everything is a Dollar Store". I might try buying a better crimper and giving it another go.

2) The QDs didn't always fit my switches. It was like I had two different size of switches. My leaf switches and my cherry microswitches and my other microswitches were all different. Kooky eh?


But yeah, I think you are right. Might as well do it the right way.

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