On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:20:22 GMT, (Graz) put finger to
keyboard and composed:

The only electronics (on a face plate) attached to the motor are a ST
electronics BTB16 600BW chip (used for phase control in motor speed
controllers) and an unidentified cylindrical component marked only as
"43-02 97C".

Are you describing a thermal fuse or thermal cutout?

http://images.asia.ru/img/alibaba/ph...ermal_fuse.jpg
http://www.applianceblog.com/archives/ThermalCutout.jpg
http://www.appliancepartsworldwide.c...5304408936.jpg

Just curious whether the failure of either of these could be causing
the motor failure symptoms in the subject line,

- Franc Zabkar
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