need switches and LEDs that snap into the metal case

[Bill Schaible]

I'm looking for switches and LEDs (with the mounting hardware that goes with
them) like the ones you often see in PC cases (i.e. the power switch, turbo
switch, and associated LEDs). Specifically, the kind in the Enlight PC
cases I have here. Let me try to describe them: The switch (or LED) is
set in a plastic mounting clip designed to snap into a rectangular hole in
the sheet metal PC case. The mounting clip has lugged prongs on its upper
and lower sides that keep the assembly from pushing all the way through into
the case. The lugs catch on the upper and lower edges of the rectangular
hole and prevent the thing from pushing all the way through. On the left
and right sides of the mounting clip there are shorter prongs, slightly
flexible, that get squeezed together as you push the assembly into the
rectangular hole, and then they spring back out when you have pushed the
assembly all the way to its seated position. When the assembly snaps in, it
is the short flexible prongs that make the 'snap'.

Also I would like to find the cylindrical clear plastic 'lenses' or maybe
they are called light pipes - though they are not very long at all - that
transmit the LED light out to the front bezel on the case. This also is hard
to describe in words, but is very common on PC cases.

I am going to use the switches and LEDs in Enlight PC cases. The Enlight
cases I have here have many unused mounting holes in the sheet metal where I
could mount these additional LEDs and switches.

Does anybody here know where I can look on the internet for case switches or
LEDs that come with the mounting hardware to snap them into the sheet metal
case?

Thanks in advance.
Bill Schaible - in Seattle, WA USA

 

[Lord Gazwad of Grantham]

I'm looking for switches and LEDs (with the mounting hardware that
goes with them) like the ones you often see in PC cases (i.e. the
power switch, turbo switch, and associated LEDs). Specifically, the
kind in the Enlight PC cases I have here. Let me try to describe
them: The switch (or LED) is set in a plastic mounting clip
designed to snap into a rectangular hole in the sheet metal PC case.
The mounting clip has lugged prongs on its upper and lower sides that
keep the assembly from pushing all the way through into the case.
The lugs catch on the upper and lower edges of the rectangular hole
and prevent the thing from pushing all the way through. On the left
and right sides of the mounting clip there are shorter prongs,
slightly flexible, that get squeezed together as you push the
assembly into the rectangular hole, and then they spring back out
when you have pushed the assembly all the way to its seated position.
When the assembly snaps in, it is the short flexible prongs that make
the 'snap'.

Also I would like to find the cylindrical clear plastic 'lenses' or
maybe they are called light pipes - though they are not very long at
all - that transmit the LED light out to the front bezel on the case.
This also is hard to describe in words, but is very common on PC
cases.

I am going to use the switches and LEDs in Enlight PC cases. The
Enlight cases I have here have many unused mounting holes in the
sheet metal where I could mount these additional LEDs and switches.

Does anybody here know where I can look on the internet for case
switches or LEDs that come with the mounting hardware to snap them
into the sheet metal case?

Thanks in advance.
Bill Schaible - in Seattle, WA USA

What did the people who make the cases say when you asked them?

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.

 

[JAD]

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