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Yvan256:
--- Quote from: vrf on August 13, 2009, 10:43:00 am ---Nice work so far!
For the small buttons, you could maybe use the Happ mini buttons with a black bezel and white center...
http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/49057700.htm
The measurements are there for you to see if they could work.
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Thanks!
The circles on the printed overlay above are 0.375" in diameter. The Happ mini button "type A" bezel is 0.75" in diameter which is the same as the Sanwa SDM-20.
The SDM-20 seems to be available in all-white, which would be better since the player buttons on the MVS cabinets were regular white buttons like the A, B, C and D buttons. I just don't have the room for four additional 24mm buttons (white 0.375" circles = 10mm) otherwise I wouldn't have this problem right now. :P
Yvan256:
--- Quote from: javeryh on August 13, 2009, 10:46:37 am ---Very nice! Have you thought of maybe moving the buttons 1/8" closer - just far enough apart so that the bezels have about 1/16" between them? This would give the appearance of a little more room on the CP.
Also, check out Bender's thread (at the bottom) for small buttons - they might work for you. Looks great so far! :cheers:
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Yes, moving the buttons closer together would probably look better and give me more room on the right for the artwork. Then again I really don't feel like re-doing this CP a fourth time. I'll have to see how it looks once the artwork is corrected for the current layout.
As for those buttons, they don't seem to be available in all-white. I'm beginning to think I'll have to do custom buttons, using the Happ "type D" button (95-0011-00) at the bottom and a custom button top on top of it.
vrf:
Maybe you could re-color the black buttons with white vinyl dye.
Yvan256:
--- Quote from: vrf on August 13, 2009, 11:23:58 am ---Maybe you could re-color the black buttons with white vinyl dye.
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I just read a bit about vinyl dye, didn't even know that stuff existed. Looks like a solid option and would allow me to get any button as long as the size and shape fits, I would simply need to dye it white. Thanks for the tip!
However, the more I think about it, if I have to re-do the CP once again to put the main buttons closer together I might as well try and see if I could make the CP deeper and simply use those white SDM-20... The 7-segment digits in DIP packaging seem to be available in 7.62mm at the smallest (no way I'm soldering surface-mount digits) not to mention that the 5mm digits are two single-digit side by side, it just doesn't look right, it has to be a double digit display. Making the CP deeper would offset the bigger size of the digits, as it is now they look too big for the "circled area" with the player and control buttons...
And I was so glad to be finally done with that CP yesterday... :cry:
Bender:
would white buttons with a black base work?
I've seen some small buttons like that somewhere
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