Help with Re-Pla-Stop

[rickysvic]

Looking to see if anyone has seen one of these. If so please let me no where. I have a VV-XVI that used to have one. I am looking to reinstall to complete my unit. This is a aftermarket repeater and was installed as a permenant fixture. I am assuming so because I have the holes where it screwed onto my unit. The pics are my paper work that came with my machine. I have checked everywhere and have found myself at a lose. All info will be greatly helpful.
Thanks Rickys Vic

[recordo]

Personally, I wouldn't be too worried about trying to find this unit.

It is only an aftermarket accessory. The factory would never have installed a unit like this.

Imagine the damage to the records by repeating them ad nauseum with the same needle in the soundbox.

That being said, it looks like an interesting unit. Good luck trying to find one!

[JohnM]

It is doubly-interesting to me since it was sold from Cincinnati and manufactured in Columbus, Indiana -- both places in my neck of the woods. I don't recall ever seeing this particular brand in over four decades of collecting, so they must be pretty darn scarce. It looks a bit complex and hinky -- there's probably a reason it was originally removed! Intriguing nonetheless!

[gramophoneshane]

Well, it does look like the repeater I found on google patents, and as I said in the other thread, it appears to be a fairly complicated devise- at least compared to many others I've seen.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=S8ZcAA ... SA&f=false

For this reason, I assume it would have been pretty expensive to manufacture & to buy, so they may not have sold as well as many others.
Also, to my uneducated eye, it appears that a lot could go wrong with such a complicated mechanism, which might explain why yours was removed & discarded at some stage, and is perhaps why no-one here appears to have come across one (so far).
Personally, I think it's nice to have machines with original accessories, even aftermarket ones such as these, that were fitted by original owners back in the day.
Like you, I would probably also attempt to hunt one down for the machine (if only to use the redundant screw holes that are now on the motor board).
I guess the obvious place to look is ebay, but you'd have to check constantly I think, and it could literally take years of looking before one actually surfaced.
If any of the phono-shows are handy to where you live, they'd be a great place to search as well.
I'm not sure if the "Re-Pla-Stop" name actually appears on the item itself (I would assume it does somewhere), but if not, non-collectors may not even realize what they have is a record repeater, so it might be worth looking in other sections of Ebay apart from the phonograph section, although I cant really advise which sections, as our ebay catagories are much less specific than those on US Ebay.
I guess I would check anything to do with mechanical antiques/collectibles.

Good luck with your search, and if you are ever successful, I'm sure we'd all be interested in seeing the actual devise. It would be especially nice if you post a video of it in action on youtube
Good luck again!

[Lenoirstreetguy]

This is a spiffy little device! I just read the patent application ...thank you Shane....and this appliance works more like later changers than the repeaters that were contemporary with it. Those devices always struck me as fairly brutal in their action. The patent application addresses that drawback in that this device at the end of the side trips an idler wheel against the turntable and which " embodies reduction gears so that the ultimate motion will be slow and deliberate, the stylus will be handled gently and without jerks and thus save the record from scratches." So it picked it up moved it back and started again with the option of selecting the number of repeats you want. I'm sold. Patent granted!

Jim

[rickysvic]

Thanks for all the info. I will continue my search and keep you informed.