[sdiy] Panel hardware...

[Michael E. Caloroso]

Dave Peverley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I'm researching front panel stuff for my design I'm working on and was
> wondering if anyone has good insight to share on locating hardware. I think
> I'm settled on an LCD now, but looking into buttins and encoders.
> 
>   Button-wise I'd like to get both illuminated and non-illuminated,
> preferably of the tactile/squidgy type, but I want to pay a reasonable amount
> for the blasted things.

I got a NOS pile (like a few hundred) of the buttons used on 
Prophet-5/10/T8 and Oberheim OBX/Xa/8 polysynths.  I have buttons with 
and without LED, and caps in black, grey, blue, and white colors and two 
different widths.  I even have a few oddballs like caps with stamped 
labels and these red ones with two LEDs.  They are the ones made in West 
Germany and are some brand called... Schwabe?  (They are in storage 
right now and not accessable at the moment)

I got 'em for a DIY project that I ultimately abandoned and have been 
selling them to folks who need replacements for their P5s and Oberheims 
(a word of caution - unknown to me, later OB-8s used a different switch 
and these don't fit).

MC