Reply to Arcade Modding a Gemini cdmp 6000

Just wondering if someone has maybe some experience with this model or modding in general, I have zero exp modding, but I am a computer savvy kind of guy and soldering is something I've done before.

This is what my unit looks like:


I'm not "overly" modding it, the only two things I would like to replace is the cue and start, as they're wobbly and after using my buddys cdj 400s for the last month n a half.. I just can't find this fun to use anymore due to the horable cue/play buttons that hold or stick or don't click right or wobble.. I want something that is more like the cdj 400s, you click it or you don't, theres no "half way" or almost clicks.

I was looking around for replacement buttons and it looks like this is the lowest profile ones I can find:
http://www.arcadeshop.de/Sanwa-Butto...-blue_736.html

My buttons are roughly 25-26 mm wide (The hole) so I figured this 24 mm would fit perfectly inside and the 27.3mm cover would prevent it from "falling in" the hole, as it would sit ontop.

My decks, when opened, have what looks like a green circuit board (like a computers mother board) under both cd-players, as long (tall wise) as my decks, that has the wheel and all the buttons on it.. this becomes a problem due to that board being screwed to the top face plate of the top of the deck, then connected down to the bottem board that has the actual cd-drives on them (So thats 4 boards in total, one screwed to the top of each deck, one screwed to the mixxer and one at the bottem plate with my back hookups and cd-drives, that the mixxer and cd-player boards are both pluged into.)

So why this is a problem is cuz the board is screwed right to the top faceplate, so really theres next to nothing for room under there.. half a inch at best... I'm wondering if these low profile buttons will actually do the job for me, 2.8mm is pretty small (The size of the button that actually goes inside) so I'm asuming this "might" work.. But really I have no experience so I don't know if what I should be doing is risking to take these buttons out (As they apear to be right on the board, not by cables I could snip/replace) or if I should just leave it as is.

Has anyone done anything like this on a unit anything like this? I would really like to get this done, but I don't want to just start taking things apart before I know a general durrection of what I'm doing.