My winged monkey sux. I have owned my standard WOW since Feb. Initially it worked great, a few months ago my winged monkey stopped picking up the ball. It usually stops 3/4" from the magnet therefore not picking up the ball. I've posted this question before and LG was gracious enough to answer telling me to bend the limit switches. Today I bent the lower switch (I thought too much). I went on to play a game and when the ball stuck to the upper magnet, the monkey started his slow and labored trek down ( it really seems to labor up and down). At the bottom it was still 3/4" from the ball. The monkey started back up without the ball and stopped half way up. I had to manually move him up at the end of my game.

I don't know if it is just my monkey that stinks, is anyone else having a similar problem? I love my WOZ and my wife and kids do to, I just want my Winged Monkey to work

Thanks for any help or ideas..

JT

Thanks for the quick response LTG. I did check the connections and the monkey does move freely in the test, although slows towards the bottom. I did check the grease and he seems greased. He's still struggling.

Hey Guys Its been a while since I had a chance to workie on my flying monkey... My WOZ has not been played because I don't want to do any damage. I spent quite a while today working on the monkey. So far, I have:
tightened the 4 Allen screws
bent the switches
greased the screw (monkey track)
Still like before, monkey seems to struggle going down. Today it stuck at the bottom. I noticed the motor was spinning but not the screws. I made sure the 4 Allen screws were tight. But the screw still just was not spinning with the motor. I took a few pictures of the motor / screw area.

I just want my monkey to workie properly.

Thanks Again - I hate to be a bother.
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Hi Everyone,

Before I put my question/problem, I wanted to than LTG for helping me get the coupling. I really appreciate your help. I was able to spend some time today figuring out how to get the coupling off. After doing that and removing the old one, I noticed a few things:

First, I noticed when I began a dry fit of everything with the coupling inserted into the screwshaft on one side and into the motor on the other that if I were to do it evenly on both sides each side may only have 1/16th of an inch.

I don't see a way to lengthen the screw shaft side or the motor side to give a tighter fit. If I push the coupling all the way into the screw side then the motor side barely touches the shaft and visa versa..

it seems to me that if I could lenghten both the motor side and screw side the coupling would fit more tightly.

Or, if the coupling was 1/4" longer..

My thought now is to try and tighten the coupling equally on the motor side and shaft side and tighten as best I can. Another thought was to place a drop of Gorilla or super glue on each side of the coupling to help keep it tight..

Does anyone have any thoughts? I really could use them. I appreciate you taking time to read this..

JT
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