[sdiy] Looking for panel mounted switches

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 01 January 2005 11:24 am, Robert van der Kamp wrote:

> I'm looking for switches with the feel and quality of the
> keyboard switches made by Cherry, and that can be mounted
> in the front panel, and not on the pcboard.
>
> The caps don't have to *look* like a pc key, I'd even prefer
> something that looked different. I just want a switch
> that's easy to operate, lasts a long time, and can be
> fitted in a round hole in the front panel. I'd like
> different keycaps as well to differentiate between the step
> and transport control buttons.
>
> Any suggestions?

Find some really *old* keyboards (from terminals and similar),  and scrap them 
out.  Yeah,  you may have to mount them on a board that will be mounted 
behind your panel -- I don't see a way around that unless you want to spend a 
lot.