Button-Covers For Buttons

[nickwit]

Hiya

I just bought some of these 5 way buttons

http://adafruit.com/products/504

AND THEY WERE EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.

Quick question... they've got square cross-section stems... that looks as though some sort of "button" covering should fit over... a bit like the coloured bits here:

https://www.adafruit.com/products/1009

Does anyone know if such things exist, and if so, where to get them?

[adafruit_support_bill]

The buttons from the #1009 switches are a little bigger and a very loose fit. For the 5-ways, I have had better luck making buttons from Sugru.
https://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main ... ch&q=sugru

[nickwit]

So is there nothing commercially available then?

I make projects with a view to selling... and sugru doesn't quite make the grade as far as that goes.

Don't the people who manufacture them make them with a button-cover in mind?

[adafruit]

There is no matching cover made for this switch - most customers would injection mold their own cover to match the enclosure used