Swap my new OBS-MX Blues/Greens with caps for your new GamerFinger buttons

As the title states I’m looking for some new Gamerfinger buttons, to offer I have 17xblue and 17xgreen OBS-MX with 17x caps and some Sanwa OBSF-30s.

Also have a handful of used OBSF-30RG.

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Though I don’t know why you’d want Gamerfingers when OBS-MX is superior in a lot of ways except silence.

I’ve been here 4 years I don’t think the 50 post thing is a worry. If it is I can spam the forums with my ideas to the tune of 21 posts :dizzy:

Give me one example of the OBS-MX being superior to a Gamerfinger…

Ill say it now, OBS-MX are shit, They have too many variables.
The greens don’t work because of too much preload, you have to let your finger off really quick so the cap goes up hard to relatch and not miss input.
You need to glue the PCB in because it bounces/twists and can jam on button press. Wiring can also push them up from the underside. (which is a stiff straight plug)
The PCB do not sit securely when placed in a metal panel.
They have vias on the underside of the PCB that if you soldered to would make each button sit at different preload.
The locating tabs on the caps can bind in their channel if the button is pressed “incorrectly” lolz.
Some of the PCB have been snapped out of their mold and lost too much side tab to sit securely.

When the blues work they are great but without hotglue on the pcb it has a springy drum feeling to it as the pcb rattles around and bounces.

There’s a lot more if you’d like me to go over the conversation I had with Brian?

OBS-MX are a poorly designed attempt at getting an MX switch arcade button without having to worry about the costs of creating an entirely new button shell.

He would of been better off buying the molds from gamerfinger and making the hex round so more people would buy them.

Have you ever use both side by side? The only complaint I hear from Gamerfinger is “Too Soggy feeling” which is just the foam pad. Some people reported caps flying off, ive never had this issue.

Some like the obs-mx because they " lock together" the gamerfinger buttons are known to have the centers pop out when double tapped. I think they are both nice. Although I’d prefer if gamerfinger were round

I think the centres only popped out on people for this reason.
The MX switch stem is soft, and the GF cap very hard, it bites into the button stem.

I think a lot of GF customers “played” with their buttons, removing the cap and switch too often and wore the mx stem down so it would be loose in the cap.

Another thing that was never really mentioned was order of installation for the mx switch. You put the cap on the switch, press them firmly together THEN put them both in the shell.

Been using them everyday since series 2, same switches. Never lost a cap, never missed input, always felt the same.

Ended up cleaning out Arcadeworld, FA and PAS of their old stock but was keen to stockpile more.

Lol as someone whose tried them all. Definitely agree with this post. The gamerfinger are your best bet but I have to say definite honorable mention OBS-MX red switches.

Good luck on your search I literally just sold me last set of Gamerfinger

The official gamerfinger site still have yellow and green buttons for sale. I brought a set of yellow ones last month.

Yellow: http://shop.gamerfinger.com/product/hbfs-30-crystal-yellow

Green: http://shop.gamerfinger.com/product/hbfs-30-crystal-green

I’ve 3 sets of OBS-MX reds. I was OK with hot gluing. I just didn’t like how the preloads were all off. I ended up sanding the stems down to reduce preload. It helped but not enough. Not consistent enough across all buttons. I also have 2 sets of GFs though, 1st and 2nd gen. Caps do fly off. Happens to enough people to be an issue. Not a fan of actuation depth.

Back to Sanwa I went :frowning: