How to Install a Push Button Switch for Circuit Bending

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: So, here is my little momentary push button switch. A lot of this kind of the same way that the guitar jack had; have little washers and little nuts to go with them. So, the way to install something like this is you need to drill a hole that's large enough to take kind of a shaft by the button but you don't want it so large that the rest of the switch can pass through it. So, I've picked a bit here for this particular switch that looks to me - we'll drill a hole that this part of the switch can pass through the push button but the other one can't. So I've picked a spot right here. I'm just going to go ahead and drill my hole, right here just really quickly for you. That was almost it. There we go. One more shot here and we'll get it in. All right, there it is. So now we have a hole. We will take our switch and stick it in from the other side, right? I'll just stick it in from the reverse side and here comes the [SOUNDS LIKE] whoop! All right, so that's where our little push button switch is just going to be, blow in some of that plastic. So now, in order to install that permanently, adjust the switch before you do any soldering. We will take that little washer, put that on, and then we'll take that little nut and we have to screw that on, and sometimes finger tightening them is enough. If you can, it's nice to get a--I know it's kind of a little tight space but sometimes it's nice to get your little needle-nose pliers in there, and grip that nut; if you can't twist it around and get it tight then that's cool. So we will--there we go. Okay. So now our little push button switch is installed, we haven't connected it to anything on the other side but that's what we'll do next."