Bachmann Controller

trammayo

trammayo

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Hi - I wonder if anybody has one of these they might like to sell - Bachmann.JPG

or maybe point me in the right direction to acquire one.
I can pay with Paypal (Friends and Family) and it could be posted to a UK (NI) address.

Mine has finally packed up after 16 years!

Thanks in anticipation.
 
Also, my Aristo Crest Remote has succumbed to an ingress of moisture and is totally cream crackered!

Anybody know where I could get one please?

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I've had it apart, cleaned it and dried it (Wife's hairdryer) - the train channel lights come on but won't switch off - the PCB looks like there is an amount of corrosion :banghead:

Again, thanking in anticipation.
 
Mick,
If your controller has led a semi-exposed life, have you tried rattling the switch, back and forth, a dozen times, and wanging the control knob full-range either way several times?

Rattling and wanging being highly technical terms, of course! :nerd: ;)

PhilP
 
PhilP said:
Mick,
If your controller has led a semi-exposed life, have you tried rattling the switch, back and forth, a dozen times, and wanging the control knob full-range either way several times?

Rattling and wanging being highly technical terms, of course! :nerd: ;)

PhilP
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Hi Phil - yeh - I'm good at doing that! I tried the technical approach by stripping it down, testing input (OK) and output (Zilch), testing output lead in case the 'plug in' wasn't making contact (it was). I haven't thrown it away yet though. I've put in a bid for the link that Mr Wandgrudd kindly provided.
Keeping my fingers crossed!
 
just out of interest what voltage / amperage was it as I note Bachmann still make one that looks identical in blue but is only 12volt I believe i.e.

36-565 Train Control System (Any Scale) by Bachmann - Rails of Sheffield

Power Controller (0.7amp) with transformer plug and track connections for OO, HO, N and OO9 scales - Code: 36-565, Manufacturer: Bachmann, Gauge: Any Scale, Category: Analogue controllers ,Electric/Control.
railsofsheffield.com
 
trammayo said:
Also, my Aristo Crest Remote has succumbed to an ingress of moisture and is totally cream crackered!

Anybody know where I could get one please?

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I've had it apart, cleaned it and dried it (Wife's hairdryer) - the train channel lights come on but won't switch off - the PCB looks like there is an amount of corrosion :banghead:

Again, thanking in anticipation.
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Are you saying that it won't work at all or just that it won,t switch off ?
 
Alpineandy said:
Are you saying that it won't work at all or just that it won,t switch off ?
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I don't think it will work at all because, as well as not switching off, it will not switch over to the track side of things. I was shocked to see the state of the PCB when I opened it to put new batteries in.
 
OK, so "cream cracker" referred to a very successful team of racers running early MG Midgets....

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Nice try Rhino, but it does not make sense that this is the source of the phrase "cream crackered", meaning exhausted, knackered, etc.

So I will substitute knackered, which is the common explanation of the phrase's origin since it rhymes.

Greg

(of course it's hard to beat Barney for being trouble, trouble >> Barney Rubble (trouble rhymes with trouble) (from the flintstones) >> just Barney
 
Greg Elmassian said:
OK, so "cream cracker" referred to a very successful team of racers running early MG Midgets....

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Nice try Rhino, but it does not make sense that this is the source of the phrase "cream crackered", meaning exhausted, knackered, etc.

So I will substitute knackered, which is the common explanation of the phrase's origin since it rhymes.

Greg

(of course it's hard to beat Barney for being trouble, trouble >> Barney Rubble (trouble rhymes with trouble) (from the flintstones) >> just Barney
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Oh no, I offered this as a technical equivalent >:)

The cream cracker was a bit of a double entendre based on the colour and a certain British biscuit used for cheese and nibbles (made by Jacobs since 1885).

When we were first married, I had a Midget in Cream Cracker colours, but didn't really know much about the origin as that was in the days before Google was a twinkle in anybody's eye, Tim Berners-Lee hadn't had his great brainwave, and computers took up more space in the building than the Chairman's office :eek:

I suspect the phrase was drawn into Cockney rhyming slang a bit later, as use of the word 'knackered' for anything other than horses is probably post WW2 - although I'd have to check on that. EDIT - one online dictionary suggests the early '70s :nod:
 
Rhinochugger said:
Oh no, I offered this as a technical equivalent >:)

The cream cracker was a bit of a double entendre based on the colour and a certain British biscuit used for cheese and nibbles (made by Jacobs since 1885).

When we were first married, I had a Midget in Cream Cracker colours, but didn't really know much about the origin as that was in the days before Google was a twinkle in anybody's eye, Tim Berners-Lee hadn't had his great brainwave, and computers took up more space in the building than the Chairman's office :eek:

I suspect the phrase was drawn into Cockney rhyming slang a bit later, as use of the word 'knackered' for anything other than horses is probably post WW2 - although I'd have to check on that. EDIT - one online dictionary suggests the early '70s :nod:
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No - way before that! The Knackerman would collect dead livestock when I started work on the farm in the early sixties. And, by the way, the cream crackers were made here in Ireland in 1885.
 
trammayo said:
No - way before that! The Knackerman would collect dead livestock when I started work on the farm in the early sixties. And, by the way, the cream crackers were made here in Ireland in 1885.
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I did say for anything but horses - the horses knackerman goes back to the 1600s.

It's the use as slang generally for being tired / worn out that would then have given the cockney rhyme, and that was a lot later :)

However, that doesn't get you a new controller.

I did try building one which worked well as a controller, the big issue being the overload cut-out. I was using a Maplins auto cut-out which was a bit too slow. Something got hit in the circuit first and the speed control no longer controls. If you could overcome that issue with a quicker cut out, you could build one quite simply Mr Wimpey.
 
Greg Elmassian said:
OK, so "cream cracker" referred to a very successful team of racers running early MG Midgets....

image


Nice try Rhino, but it does not make sense that this is the source of the phrase "cream crackered", meaning exhausted, knackered, etc.

So I will substitute knackered, which is the common explanation of the phrase's origin since it rhymes.

Greg

(of course it's hard to beat Barney for being trouble, trouble >> Barney Rubble (trouble rhymes with trouble) (from the flintstones) >> just Barney
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Interestingly, that car was first registered in Berkshire, BL being a Berkshire code, ( by coincidence, my elder sons initials, ABL, we actually lived in Berks when he was born although it soon changed to Oxfordshire, where he was actually born) .
Since the MG factory was in Abingdon, which was in Berkshire, I guess it was bought by a local.
Dave
 
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