Hey everyone 😀

This is going to be a slightly unusual question, but hopefully someone has dealt with this before.

I will soon be restoring an old 486 PC in a mid-tower AT case and there's one .... weird issue I'm having with the power button. It was a problem I knew about when I got the machine, so it wasn't sprung on me. Essentially, the power button was 'jammed' on.

I'd originally thought it would just be jammed with age. I've managed to get the front of the case off and unmounted the power switch and when it's unmounted, it clicks fine. Upon trying to remount it, I instantly picked up on what the problem was. Essentially the stem of the power switch is just a little too long for the power button in the case, so when I try and mount it, it gets squished into the on position and can't move clearly.

I don't really have much in the way of tools to trim the stem, and there is a risk that I'll overdo it the other way because .... well I can be a bit clumsy when it comes to this thing.

I'm going to go out to the brains trust that is here on Vogons to investigate another idea because I'm not sure if such a thing even exists, let alone what to look for or whether there are standard sizes for such things. The other 'obvious' way to do it so to add some 'spacer' that extends the mounting screw holes for the power supply (at a rough estimate they'd probably need to be 2-4mm so I may need to get a couple of sizes). Basically attach those to the case, and screw the button into the spacers.

I'd like to find out if such a thing exists, and also find out if there are standard screw sizes for such things. So I thought I might ask here and see what information is out there.