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I made a very short video showing the smooth action of the Repeater-Stop device made by the Repeater Stop Company of Chicago ILL. This repeater was patented in the USA in 1913 and 1916 in Canada.
Offered in both Nickel and Gold finish.
This repeater has a couple interesting features. The user can pre-select one,two or three repeats of a song (circled #2 in red). There is also an automatic brake to stop the table after the selected play(s) have completed (circled #1 in red).
The flaw with this particular repeater is the inner core (worm gear) of the spindle tower. Being made from pot metal, it is prone to expansion and or crumbling. Making these inoperable.

Fortunately, this particular repeater has maintained it's integrity and operates as smooth as they were designed to.
Hope you enjoy the video.

https://youtu.be/bbnuR0QccpA

Is the little worm gear thingie inside the vertical sleeve really pot metal? Somehow I thought they were hard rubber...I have a couple in a box someplace and gave up on them because that part had deteriorated. But after watching that cool video it makes me want to try again, maybe with JB Weld and some deft sculpting.

PeterF wrote:Is the little worm gear thingie inside the vertical sleeve really pot metal?.

Yes the thingy is pot metal... . At least on this type.

That is a lot different than the others I have seen on Youtube, it picks up the needle and arm smoothly like a modern electric player does at the end of a record, rather than smacking into the reproducer like the others such as the encore, or flinging the reproducer and sliding the needle on metal like the Geer does.