Button on a railing

[endecotp]

Dear All,

I need to mount a button on outside railings. Any suggestions for how to do this reasonably unobtrusively?

I am considering fixing a box of this sort vertically on a railing:

with the cable entering the bottom with a gland, and a waterproof button something like this:

on the top. Then fix the box to the railings with U-shaped threaded brackets (what are they called?), using the holes that you can see on its flanges top and bottom. Then something neater than cable ties (?) to attach the cable to the railing.

One other thought was that I could fit a button of that sort directly into the end of a piece of black metal conduit / pipe, and somehow attach that to the railing.

Does anyone have any other ideas? Not sticking out like a sore thumb on an old black iron railing is the main consideration.

As it happens it's for a light. (Momentary switch though.) But similar could be for doorbells. Needs to be mains voltage.

Thanks.

 

[pete01]

Drill and tap?

 

[endecotp]

Drill and tap?

Drilling into the iron railing? Interesting idea - but I'm still scarred by my drilling-into-the-soil-stack experience: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/drilling-a-cast-iron-soil-pipe.658872/


What would I then attach?

 

[pete01]

What would I then attach?

The button?

 

[endecotp]

The button?

I’ve failed to find a self-contained button that I could mount in this way; they mostly seem to be panel-mounted so need a box of some sort. Can you suggest something?

 

[pete01]

This?

https://www.screwfix.com/p/knightsbridge-ip66-20ax-1-gang-1-way-weatherproof-outdoor-retractive-switch/556vf?ref=SFAppShare

 

[endecotp]

Ah yes. Rather large. Has anyone ever seen an “architrave-size” outside switch of that sort?

Edit: like this one, hmm:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/british-general-storm-ip66-20a-1-gang-1-way-weatherproof-outdoor-retractive-switch-with-led/570xf

I’d prefer a pushbutton though!