Question for anyone with Yellow Aldi Binoculars

[Alfie168]

I have a pair of yellow "Traveller" marine binocs from Aldi and they are pretty good...but I need a favour from another owner as the red light in the compass on mine is unreliable and I'm not sure if I have lost a component in the battery compartment.

Can I ask someone to open the battery compartment in theirs and answer a question for me. With the two batteries out there is a contact on the lower left of the battery compartment. Mine has a recess in the upper right of the compartment and I'm wondering if there should be something in there I have mislaid to locate the batteries against the lower left contact. It all feels as if there should be something there and whatever it is..mine is missing...probably lost when i changed the batteries...but I need this confirming before deciding what to do next

I know its an odd request but can anybody help supply this info for me?

Tim

 

[alan_d]

Hi Tim,

Just looked at mine, and there is a sprung brass contact in the recess you describe (adjacent to the right object lens).

Hope that helps.

Alan

 

[Alfie168]

Hi Tim,

Just looked at mine, and there is a sprung brass contact in the recess you describe (adjacent to the right object lens).

Hope that helps.

Alan

I have one little brass contact adjacent to RH lens... But what is opposite it on the centre pivot side? I have a wide groove that suggests there should be something in it. I have temporarily stuffed a bit of card in it, and lo and behold, the light works so I think I'm on the right track.

Tim

 

[rob2]

Perhaps replace the card with rubber? It reminded me of a .22 rifle I once owned which had lost a spring from the sights - a matchstick stuffed into the gap gave just the right tension!

Rob.

 

[alan_d]

I have one little brass contact adjacent to RH lens... But what is opposite it on the centre pivot side? I have a wide groove that suggests there should be something in it.
Tim

I have nothing opposite the brass contact, just a linear gap in the threading.

You say there is "a contact on the lower left of the battery compartment". In my case there is a flat circular plate at the inner end of the battery compartment, on top of which is a short spiral spring which makes contact with the negative pole of the battery and pushes the whole battery against the screwed brass plug which thus makes contact with the positive side of the battery, and the circuit is presumably completed by the screwed plug making contact with the brass contact on the side.

P.S. Since I have taken the battery in and out a couple of times, the red light has stopped working ....

P.P.S. OK now I have put both batteries back in (including the one that dropped on the floor and rolled under the chair).

Alan

 

[cliff]

Take them back - 3 year warranty - demand a replacement pair or, failing that, get your money back and buy a decent pair of bins - problem solved

 

[Alfie168]

Take them back - 3 year warranty - demand a replacement pair or, failing that, get your money back and buy a decent pair of bins - problem solved

Nothing wrong with them as binoculars whatsoever. Anyway the 3 year mark passed a good few years back now. I think I have sused how to get the compass light to work every time I press the button.

What made you think they are poor binoculars as they are not poor at all.

Tim

 

[alan_d]

Nothing wrong with them as binoculars whatsoever. Anyway the 3 year mark passed a good few years back now. I think I have sused how to get the compass light to work every time I press the button.

What made you think they are poor binoculars as they are not poor at all.

Tim

Don't be silly, of course they can't be any good because we did not pay enough for them. The fact that you and I have found that they suited our purposes for a number of years is irrelevant, and just shows how little we know.

Alan