This all started with Zorro's incredible MWI software.
And I thought it would be great to have this in the car. But where can you mount such a thing to be confortable and accesible at all times> In the armrest ofcourse. Thing is the Escort doesn't have an armrest, so I decided to fabricate one myself.
But before building the actual armrest I had to find a nice looking button. After searching a lot of time for one, I couldn't fin one I liked so I decided to fabricate that myself also. (you wouldn't believe out of what...)
In the first pic you can see how it used to look like, when I first came up with the ideea.
In the second pic, a second state of the button.
So, in the third pic, you can see how the button looks like in its final state.
1. That's the cap from a D&G parfume bottle, wwhich looks really nice, and it's really resistent as it has some kind of plasitic underneath.
2. That was taken from an old rotative tweeter I found laying around. The upper half is glued to the actuall button, and the button one is glued to 3. the stative support.
3. I took that nice looking support from a leg table, took out it's existing bolt, and driled a hole.
In the fourth pic you can see how it looks on the not yet finished armrest.
You can see in the last pic some of the button's elements intheir almost initial state.
UPDATE:
You can see in the last pic, version 2 of the armrest.