Thanks, neat, reckon I’ll do something similar. But I'll first see how well the two-pin alternatives perform, which I ordered from eBay UK yesterday. Upside of these hopefully is their secure mounting. plus extra versatility of positioning (so higher button density). A downside is that it will be easier to carelessly get a direct short!
The very poor way you describe things.
Believe it or not I use these so called insecure tactile switches for permanent projects soldered onto strip board. They work very well.
This was my latest project an Isomorphic Hexagonal keyboard.
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Looks good, and I do appreciate that these miniature buttons can be used effectively in finished projects, as you have done. But I think that given my subject heading, there was no ambiguity about my context being breadboards.
I still don't know what you mean by breadboards, I take that to mean solder less bread board, what do you mean by that word?
Yes of course he does! 
The problem being that the pins on the common "tact" switches are just long enough to go through a normal PCB, but not long enough even when flattened with pliers, to reliably fit in - yes, a solderless breadboard.
Mind you I seem to recall having them work.
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Dictionary definition below. And note the spelling, unlike yours.
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a board for cutting bread on.
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a board for making an experimental model of an electric circuit.
I do remember a Ladybird book in the 1970s that used 1) as 2), using a wooden board, wood screws and cup washers as the circuit nodes.
I'm still no wiser what @Terrypin is using.
@Terrypin , are you referring to this sort of breadboard that requires no soldering:
Or are you referring to what I call Veroboard (or protoboard or breadboard) that @Grumpy_Mike showed in photo #2 in post #22, which has rows of copper tracks (or individual pads) that components are soldered to?
The modern version:
I'm astonished that there are those here who don't know what a breadboard is - common parlance in electronics!
Did you read all the posts up-thread? Including the dictionary definition I pasted?
Originally the word referred to a literal bread board, a polished piece of wood used when slicing bread. In the 1970s the solderless breadboard (a.k.a. plugboard, a terminal array board) became available and nowadays the term "breadboard" is commonly used to refer to these.
Not stripboard, not perfboard, not Veroboard; breadboard.
Those look a bit like the spring clips used in my older brother's much-coveted (by me) Electronic Engineer kit
Wow! Three transistors and at least one diode.
Two speakers! 
I'm just restoring my grandfather's Philips portable reel-to-reel tape recorder from the mid 60s.
I'm not sure of the diode count, but the manual proudly trumpets nine (yes, nine! Count 'em) transistors.
If the lead length and shape is the big problem, it looks like the relevant search procedure at Digikey is to look for "tactile switches" that are through-hole and packaged on "cut tape."
That narrows down the 6000+ switches to about 42 "in stock"
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