Grr. Yah, you're right. The buttons are pretty tightly fit in the faceplate...if they had as much gap as the volume knob had, then maybe...

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MK2 #141, green, 12GB

Not only are the buttons a close fit, they are also tapered - outlining them almost certainly isn't an option.

Rob

It may be possible to inject the buttons using that material, however most photoluminescent materials are short lived - the ones that aren't are a little hazardous.

Rob

mmmm... good points. I knew there must have been reasons why it hadn't been suggested before .

beaker
12 gig blue

I found that I couldn't order the solid buttons from Farnell as they have just started slapping a minimum order quantity on; so I was going to get a set cast. At the point where I tried this I found a chap locally with a laser he uses to cut steel plates; he can punch a 0.5mm hole through the buttons for me with no effort, so I think I will go for this route.

I have got a supplier of blue LEDs locally, so I'll be buying up a batch soon.

As for wiring in the tracking and mounting the LEDs - no, not yet. This is something I'll be starting in the next month or two so I'll let you know.

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015

I hear Tritium makes a great accelerator for nuclear bombs. It's also nifty for gun sites and watch faces.

It'd probably be a little more expensive than a solid Platinum Empeg though. And the amount that you'd be asking for would probably raise enough eyebrows at the US Department of Defense.

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'01 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro

I hear Tritium makes a great accelerator for nuclear bombs. It's also nifty for gun sites and watch faces.

It'd probably be a little more expensive than a solid Platinum Empeg though. And the amount that you'd be asking for would probably raise enough eyebrows at the US Department of Defense.

Actually, any alpha emiter will work with, IIRC, zinc sulphide screen (that's classical solution, I guess better ones exist). However, I would somehow be reluctant to put something that most positively must not find its way into my digestive or respiratory tract even at trace levels into something I regularly touch . Imagine headaches FDA would give guys@empeg with that, considering that remote required testing and clearance by them becaise of IR radiation .

OTOH, my Samsung A/C remote does have off/on button that glows in the dark, and, as far as I can see, the glow does not diminish over the period of several hours, so it would seem the effect used is not slow visible-spectrum fluorescence. I will make sure not to open the button, just in case...

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green