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I wish Sanwa offered more variety with their screw in buttons, like all black. Some sticks I have do not work well with snap ins.

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I wish Sanwa offered more variety with their alternate buttons like the OBSF-RG and OBS-B.

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I tend to prefer screw-ins, more for the fact that it’s more lenient on the thickness of the top-panel if anything. Some of my panels are 1/8" ABS with a 1/16" plexi (so 3/16" total, or ~4.76mm); that’s just a hair too thick for snap-ins to fit into.

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If you go by the chart on this page: http://slagcoin.com/joystick/attributes_brands.html

(scroll down a ways)

You’ll notice most of the screw-in versions of the buttons do indeed have a longer engage distance and higher tension than their snap-in counterparts.

According to most posts about them, you need to shave off the little “nubs” around the buttons and just leave the “snap-in” tabs or they can crack the plexi when pushing them in. These are the same nubs people (including myself) are talking about that wear down when removing/installing the buttons frequently and cause the buttons to become loose and spin around when in a standard top plate.

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I’d also like to know about the snap ins with the new 1/32" plexi from art

Edit: So are they loose when installed with the shaved sides into plexi

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Screw ins all the time! I have never had any problem with loosen nuts + I can use them in thick mdf or thin metal panels and also Seimitsu’s color variety and types: You can get solid colors, clear plungers or completely clears in both sizes, just go ahead to AkiShop and see for yourself.

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I can’t speak for Art’s plexi, but I put PS-14-G snap ins (aka the mother of all hole-stretching damn-near 32mm buttons that I have to put my entire weight on just so they finally fit in the hole) and they didn’t crack the plexi on my Etokki Omni.

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If you take your time and inser 1 button at a time, you should be fine, but if you do force a button too much you can crack the plexy

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if you take the time to get a razor or a hobby knife like an exacto knife, shaving down the small 4 bumps will minimize the chance of plexi cracking. The new 1/32 impact resistant acrylic that Art’s Hobbies is using is more flexible than the 1/16 that he was using and should be way more durable and not have to worry about this. Art’s 1/16 plexi’s you have to be very careful.

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I did not know Art switched to different stock material. Impact resistant, I got to look into that for my TE panel.
Time to mod my Chun Li TE again, wondering should I go all Sanwa or all Seimtsu

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screw-ins with threadlocker?

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just got my new snap in buttons. tried to fit it with my custom plexi they almost snapped, i’ll go with screwins next time. but for slim/small sticks snap in are still preferrable

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If you are using a transparant top then snapins because personally they look better. Screw ins work better for LEDs. Snap ins take some dremil work for Uila.

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Screw-ins with thread sealing tape (aka, teflon tape, plumbers tape)

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What kind of buttons did you get? And what do you mean they almost snapped?

Snap-ins typically require a lot of force to get them into the hole, it’s so much that if you’ve never modded you might feel like you are breaking them. But that’s how it’s supposed to be

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I might have to try that.

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I’ve spent some time working out why that is, and my conclusion was that it is mostly a sound thing. The casing of snap-ins is more open because of the cutouts for the tabs, so it lets out a high frequency sound from the tap that you don’t hear with the closed design of the screw-ins. The feel does not really change, but it is almost impossible to separate the feel from the sound they make.

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The size of the build can also dictate which buttons you need. For instance if you’re building a low profile case or have clearance issues, snap ins are better.

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Alot to take into account when doing a build. You wouldn’t think so at first taking on controller building.