Happ pushbuttons with vertical microswitch?

[Freppz]

Hi,

When i built my first cabinet back in the 2000:s, I bought controls directly from HAPP in the US (I'm in Sweden). I can't exactly remember what they where called, but I think it was something along the lines of "Happ competition pushbutton".

They looked like the standard Happ/Suzo concave pushbuttons availible today, but the microswitch was mounted vertically in the button. I would like to get my hands on a few more buttons of the same kind but can't seem to find them anywhere. Have they simply gone out of production? I really liked them for two reasons: You could replace them without taking the microswitch off and they had a more responsive "click" (according to me anyway).

Does anyone remember these button? Is there anywhere to get a hold on a few of them?

Kind regards
/Freppz

[PL1]

They looked like the standard Happ/Suzo concave pushbuttons availible today, but the microswitch was mounted vertically in the button.

Those are "Suzo Happ Ultimate Pushbuttons" -- not sure if IL ever made them or what name they might have called them. (IL joysticks have different names than the Happ version of the same stick.)

There are several sites that carry them, but the two I looked at were pretty expensive. (Amazon and GameRoomGuys)

Not sure if there are any vendors on your side of the pond that carry them.   


Scott

[jeremymtc]

Suzo-Happ has just recently exited the amusement parts business: https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/suzo-happ-apparently-gone-it-seems-tnt-amusements.565170/page-5

You might try contacting Twisted Coin to see if they have any in inventory.

[RandyT]

Does anyone remember these button? Is there anywhere to get a hold on a few of them?

To be honest, those were some of the worst buttons ever conceived.  I put them on my first cabinet close to 3 decades ago, didn't like them then either, even as a neophyte with microswitch based buttons.

Be kind to yourself and upgrade.  If it's click you are after, there are many kinds of switches out there, with whatever amount of force and/or click you would be after.  The difference would be in smoothness of actuation and lack of wear on the actuator. Microswitches don't fail often and swapping them is trivial where the button is concerned, even if they do.

RE: HAPP

I guess that explains why they stopped answering my emails a few months ago.  But to be honest, I'm not surprised.  They fell victim to the same problem as many a company.  To cut costs, most of their arcade parts manufacturing moved to China.  Eventually, they started selling clones directly.  And you can't really blame HAPP for doing so, because it would have happened anyway.  I'm sure the downturn in expendable income didn't help either.  Such is the world now it seems.  The problem for the consumer is that when the original producer goes away, so does a lot of the less popular parts that people might still want/need...like the pushbuttons being sought by the OP.

Unfortunately, that's one of the real side effects from consumers chasing only low-cost.  The options become more limited.