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Hi everyone,

I’ve been having a hell of a time installing a repeater on a Model B Edison Home. My latest issue is installing the repeater arm on the carriage.

I’ve removed the carriage from the bar on which it slides. The repeater arm looks like a clamp with a single bottom set screw and then two set screws in top to get the height correct.

I simply can’t get the repeater arm to install on the carriage arm. The single bottom set screw is too narrow in squarely land in the iron lip of the carriage. It slips off or falls in front or back. When I do get it (by shear luck) to engage just right, when I crank it right to repeater arm moves in such a way to instruct the passage of the sliding bar.

Do I have the wrong carriage for this repeater? It’s for a Model B home. I’d be fine getting a different carriage, but I don’t know where to start.

Am I just missing something here? I feel like this should be straight forward. There are no instructional videos online about how to get this right, but I am following the instruction from the Edison Phonograph monthly with little success.

Thanks for the advice everyone!

I may have solved this one! Posting the solution here to help someone in the future with a similar problem. I used a strip of metal with the clamp piece so the set screw had something to push against. It works great! The metal is actually from a picture from hanger. I used wire clipper to shape it to the correct length. Here are a few photos. Now to drill the bed plate! Fingers crossed!