tonycharente
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Just to let you know a bit more detail on these (not wishing to patronise, just clarify). The little round piece you can press out that Nibby is referring to is the indicator light, which shines when the button is switched on.
All the buttons including the nav buttons etc, have backlighting which comes on when the sidelights are on, so you can find them in the dark.
I designed the stickers to account for that by following the below, very fiddly process.
1. Strip buttons back to the white coating. (Or like I accidently did, strip the white as well and need to re-paint the white)
2. Carefully use a scalpel to cut out the required sticker leaving a decent black border around the icon.
3. Peel off the backing of the sticker and attach to the white button using the just visible original marking for lining up.
4. Carefully cut and attach a piece of masking tape that just covers the icon but not the whole sticker.
5. Spray the buttons a couple of coats of satin black. Not too many otherwise you will have a thick edge of paint build up.
6. Remove the masking carefully, using tweezers advised.
7. Spray as many coats of matt laquer as you can be bothered to. The more coats, the more the paint and sticker edges blend.
8. Fit all the buttons back in place, once dry.
My button stickers arrived safely from Andy4200 today, and very nice they look too, thank you Andy.
I have a few questions for Andy before I attack the project, please:-
"1. Strip buttons back to the white coating. (Or like I accidently did, strip the white as well and need to re-paint the white)"
If I totally strip the buttons right back, are they not still white? If so, why would I need to repaint them white?
"5. Spray the buttons a couple of coats of satin black".
What make of satin black paint did you use, please?
"7. Spray as many coats of matt laquer as you can be bothered to."
What make of matter laquer did you use, please?
Many thanks,
Tony