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Title: Mounting Hole
Post by: segasega on April 07, 2011, 01:30:48 pm

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I have to go buy a drill bit tomorrow, to drill the mounting holes for my buttons, just wondering what measurement that 1.13 is? Inches?

Title: Re: Mounting Hole
Post by: Donkbaca on April 07, 2011, 04:40:08 pm

I here the ultimates are bad buttons.

I believe 1 1/8 inches will do you just fine, if its like every other happs button

Title: Re: Mounting Hole
Post by: segasega on April 07, 2011, 04:47:42 pm

Quote from: Donkbaca on April 07, 2011, 04:40:08 pm

I here the ultimates are bad buttons.

Why?

Title: Re: Mounting Hole
Post by: DNA Dan on April 07, 2011, 05:07:41 pm

1/8 = .125  so .13 is pretty much 1/8. I don't think you will find a 1/7.69 drill bit.

Title: Re: Mounting Hole
Post by: Donkbaca on April 07, 2011, 05:13:52 pm

From what I gather on the forums, most people hate them because they tend to jam up.

Title: Re: Mounting Hole
Post by: BobA on April 07, 2011, 05:24:51 pm

I think the problem is due to the fact that the plunger slides past the microswitch actuator.  In alot of other buttons the plunger pushes directly on the actuator as the button is mounted in the horizontal and not the vertical.

Title: Re: Mounting Hole
Post by: segasega on April 07, 2011, 05:44:56 pm

Oh well, too late now, just ordered a bunch. Oh sure I'll give them a go, were cheap enough, if I need to change them down the line a bit, it wont be too big a job.

Title: Re: Mounting Hole
Post by: Donkbaca on April 07, 2011, 06:17:13 pm

yeah, the hole size is the same, unless you get japanese buttons.