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quarterback:

--- Quote from: conseit68 on June 22, 2005, 12:59:20 pm ---the buttons i am currently thinking of have the option of no bezel...i am thinking that for construction ease though that a "hole" drilled into the handle for the button would be more simple than a square or slot.
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Yeah, the shape of my 'example' wasn't really a suggestion.

markrvp:

--- Quote from: quarterback on June 22, 2005, 01:45:01 pm ---
Any other Wico owners out there want to grab their ball tops and give an opinion on this?


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RayB:
A button on the FRONT of a ball top will not work unless you can devise a way to prevent the ball n shaft from rotating! Otherwise in the heat of gameplay, those suckers will rotate all over the place under the pressure of your finger press on the button. Even a little bit of "play" would be annoying. Keep this in mind.

Another side-note: The advantage of a bezel is that it can hide your workmanship! ;-) When I did mine, I had to dremel the hole larger, which created a slightly imperfect opening. The button bezel hides this imperfection (and also hides the hot glue I used to keep the button solidly in place).

Alternatives of course are to mount a button on the bottom of the shaft, and use a long rod to actuate the switch.

conseit68:
yes the general idea is to make the button as low profile as possible, wherever it is located. as to actual location of a trigger fire...please lets not get into that yet since i feel it may distract us from the primary design process. we could always start another thread...but i do understand your point of slighty below the "equator" line of a bat/ball top.

jlml:
I recall playing with the Tron cocktail sticks some years back. They worked suprisingly well for my tastes, even though they don't LOOK like they would work. It'd be great to get a trigger into a standard joy.

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