If you're not sure which brand of button machine you have
please read this before placing an order for button-making supplies

At Dr. Don's Buttons, we sell button-making supplies for our machines, as well as the supplies for Badge-A-Minit 2-1/4" and Badge-A-Minit 3" button machines.

And while we sell button-making supplies for our machines and theirs, it's important to understand that the button-making supplies for the two machines are not interchangeable.

The reason they aren't is that Badge-A-Minit supplies are a non-standard size. Badge-A-Minit 2-1/4" parts actually measure 2-3/8", while the Badge-A-Minit 3" parts measure 2-7/8".

If you're not sure which machine you have, how can you tell the difference?

Our machines have a distinctive red handle, as seen in the photos above. That red handle tells you the machines is one of ours.

Badge-A-Minit machines are easy to identify because their machines will have "Badge-A-Minit" stamped on them somewhere. If it doesn't have Badge-A-Minit stamped on the machine, it isn't a Badge-A-Minit machine.

There are numerous other machines on the market and you know you have one of those machines if it doesn't have a red handle or it doesn't have Badge-A-Minit stamped on the machine.

The differences in parts from one machine to another can be very subtle. How subtle, you ask?

Well, we used to sell a button machine that was made by another company. That machine used the same metal parts as our Model 225 2-1/4" machine, but it required a mylar disc (the plastic covering) that was 1/64th of an inch larger than the one used by the Model 225. Use the mylar intended for the Model 225 in that other machine and the machine would start making defective buttons every so often.

Because of all this, I made the decision several years ago to only sell parts for our machines and for Badge-A-Minit 2-1/4" and Badge-A-Minit 3" machines.

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