Button Switches

[Claudie]

There are small button switches on some boards like the ones inside of CD drives. CD Drives usually have two or three of them. I have taken several of them apart and they have a small disk inside that looks gold colored on one side. The gold colored side is facing away from the contacts. My question is this, are these small disks gold plated? I did a search on here for them but "switch" is a hard word to search. If these little disks are indeed gold plated, why would the gold side be facing away from the contacts in the switch?
I don't have a way of getting a picture on here of the switches I am asking about.

 

[Barren Realms 007]

Take some HCL and put on a spot and see if it changes color.

 

[Pilgrim2850]

Hi Claudie,

I just took some of those switches apart and they were small round discs silver on one side and copper on the other. I would think they make gold ones also, but I've not run into any.

larry

 

[Claudie]

I don't think they are gold, although some of the ones I took apart appear to have gold colored contacts behind that disk, while others have silver colored ones.

 

[Oz]

Say goodbye sneha

 

[rewalston]

Say goodbye sneha

Sneha? HUH?

 

[Barren Realms 007]

Say goodbye sneha

Sneha? HUH?

No, it's Sneha who! :roll:

 

[Claudie]

I missed it but I think Sneha must have been a spammer.