I need to have some user buttons, and it's not acceptable this time to just pick a tactile switch with long plunger and have the end stick out the side of the case.
I thought for sure it would be easy to find some off the shelf options for those little plastic/metal caps that are typically captive between the housing and the board mount switches... You know, the ones that always fall on the floor and get lost when you take something apart....
Something like these....
![](https://imobie-resource.com/en/support/img/how-to-fix-iphone-volume-buttons-stuck-1.png)
Obviously the ones they use on high end phones are all custom, but I'm surprised there isn't a category at Digikey, or at least it's not easier to find a supply of these things that get used on all the cheap Chinese gadgets. Am I just completely missing what the right search term is to call these things? Anyone help me out here?
::EDIT::
.. and yes I know about
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/accessories-caps/210 but I'm not talking about giant brightly colored caps. Pretty sure that would be worse than just the bare tactile switch plunger sticking out.....