Truely superb, you dont fancy popping round and helping me out with mine do you?



Re the switches - you have mail

You find them by tracking down an old 1980s PC clone keyboard that used the same, or similar switches. The original Omrons used in these cabs are dreadful switches, they look nice and chunky but the actual contact point is about 1mm squared and its encased in plastic so you cant physically clean it. The ones I have here are buckling spring switches, they look very similar and fit perfectly.

you can open them and try to repair them, but for now i only need sixteen - and those i have. i'll keep the others as spare parts for a potential later repair.

Yes and no, you can open the switch body easily enough, but the actual switch contact is enclosed inside one of the parts inside, you cant get to the bit where metal touches metal at all.

I would also bet that once you have your controllers built you will find some of those buttons just stop working, then when you get them back out they pass the beep test, only to last 15 minutes back in the controller. Am ditching all of mine as they are dreadful dreadful switches, I have some clicky switches of the same design to use thankfully.

Hi - yes those Omrom switches are dreadful, they were cheap and nasty from day 1 too, they are also not fixable as the actual switch component is encased in plastic, even tho the main body is easily separated. I have tracked down switches that look almost the same, fit perfectly but are buckling spring switches, much higher quality. On my cabinet only 3 of the original switches worked and they are rather intermittant.

One other point - it looks like you are missing the O rings that go in the controllers (mine had crumbled mostly to dust), they stop the handles from rattling on the metal stems. Thankfully they are a standard size so very easy to replace.