funhouse rudy eye stuck

robotype

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rudy has this problem, the left eye will rotate too much and stay blocked like that.
I have opened him and found the holes for the eye link wire are quite worn so I tried swapping the eyes but no luck, left eye will be stuck like before. I was thinking to shrink the holes using some bushing or using a shorter wire but to tell the truth I am not sure the fault is caused by that, could it be the coil pulling too much due to some worn parts? any experience? suggestions? I can't find replacement eyes by the way.
 
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I've never seen that specific problem, it's usually too little movement, not too much!

Every Rudy I've worked on was pretty badly worn, so I'm sure you've simply got some mechanical issue there due to wear. I think your best bet is just going to be to pull the front and back halfs of his head off and manually work everything and try a see where the overtravel is occuring.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0iLb7LFIyk

in the test mode the eye will turn normally to the right infinite times but to the left it stucks after the second time.

during gameplay rotating the eye from the far left to the far right often causes the eye to rotate too much like shown in the first post.

could it be a worn coil stop problem?
 
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